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Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3026 (opens in a new tab)
UCR's CRC3026 Dancy profile reproduces a 1967 account stating that Trimble and Weshart, historically attributed to a Dancy tangerine × Parson Brown orange cross in Webber and Swingle's early breeding work, are now regarded as nucellar seedlings of Dancy rather than new varieties. This is a retrospective cultivar account, not molecular proof of Weshart's identity.
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Herbert J. Webber; Walter T. Swingle · U.S. Department of Agriculture · 1905 (reprint from the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for 1904)
https://archive.org/details/newcitruscreatio00webb (opens in a new tab)
Weshart account, printed p. 238 and comparison pp. 239–240; physical scans 44 and 51–52, with plates XX and XXI on scans 45 and 47. Records the source’s historical cross account and fruit/tree description while noting that adventive-embryo origin could not be ruled out. UCR’s reproduced 1967 account later regarded Weshart as a nucellar Dancy seedling; neither account is molecular proof.
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Herbert J. Webber · Journal of Heredity (Oxford University Press) · 1 January 1905 (Volume os-1, Issue 1, pp. 78–86; DOI 10.1093/jhered/os-1.1.78)
https://scispace.com/pdf/notes-on-citrus-hybrids-qwcm4e56pa.pdf (opens in a new tab)
Scanned article, pp. 78–86. At printed p. 83 end through p. 84 opening, Webber discusses seedlings from a Dancy tangerine × Parson Brown orange cross and identifies Weshart and Trimble as two seedlings considered sufficiently different from Dancy to be named. The text says several seedlings of this cross fruited and lacked visible orange-parent characters, but it does not identify a particular Weshart accession or prove its genetic parentage. The preceding p. 83 discussion is a separate pomelo-female × Dancy-male series; it specifically identifies only Sampson among the Dancy-influenced seedlings. Preserve this article’s historical Dancy × Parson Brown account alongside the 1904 Yearbook’s qualified cross account and UCR’s later nucellar-Dancy interpretation; none is molecular proof.
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W. P. Bitters · Journal of Citrus Pathology (digital special topic) · 2021 (digital edition; manuscript circa 1986)
Unpublished manuscript dated circa 1986; digital edition issued as a Journal of Citrus Pathology special topic in April 2021. Printed p. 82 (PDF p. 88), Bitters summarizes Moreira et al. (1965): nucellar Bara and Valencia Late orange, Dancy tangerine, and Eureka lemon scions were budded on 77 tristeza-tolerant rootstocks grown under nonirrigated conditions in Brazil. Weshart appears in Bitters’s low rootstock drought-resistance category. The cited passage gives no Weshart accession/clone, does not describe Weshart as a scion or fruiting tree, and supplies no measured threshold. The underlying Moreira paper was not retrieved.
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