interspecific

The resulting fruit from a mother tree is planted and the seedling produced is the new mixed variety, technically called an "interspecific" fruit.

When Apricot Met Plum...

Kingsburg Orchards sells more than 210 varieties of fruit, about half of which are interspecific.

Creating New Fruit

Creating New Fruit Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal Samples of interspecific peaches and nectarines from Bradford Farms were packaged in crates and marked with identifying numbers.

When Apricot Met Plum...

Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal Jon Quisenberry of Bradford Farms -- a genetic breeder -- picks samples of interspecific plums from the trees at Kingsburg Orchards in Kingsburg, Calif., to be tasted for specific qualities, such as flavor, size and production value.

Creating New Fruit

Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal Samples of interspecific peaches and nectarines from Bradford Farms were packaged in crates and marked with identifying numbers.

Creating New Fruit

Despite their name, apple pears are not an interspecific fruit.

Creating New Fruit

Spatial ecology: The role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions.

SuperCooperators

Although every living thing eventually goes extinct in the face of changes ranging from ice ages to interspecific competition, the fossil record shows that while some species debut and are booed off the stage, there are others -- cockroaches and sharks come to mind -- whose dance with time is more waltz than jitterbug.

Arthur Rosenfeld: Must Humans Go the Way of the Dinosaurs?

This literature shows that symbiogenesis, interspecific fusions (hybridogenesis, gene transfers of various types, karyotypic fissioning, and other forms of acquisition of "foreign genomes" or epigenesis) are more important than the slow gradual accumulation of mutation or sexual mergers.

Behe and Gene discuss the Evolution of the Flagellum

A related area of interest is intraspecific and interspecific variation and energetics of postnatal growth in bats.

Contributor: Thomas Kunz