Fasciation was one of the seven characteristics he chose when illustrating the concept of dominant and recessive traits in his cross breeding of peas. It is not know if the fasciations in most woody plants are inherited. It is know, however, that the tendency toward fasciation is transmissible by budding and grafting once the woody plant develops a fasciation. Growers who cut off fasciated branches often find this condition returns with the development of new branches. Herbicides, insects and physical injury to the growing tip are reported to stimulate the occurrence of fasciations.
Conditions favoring rapid growth also favor the development of fasciations.
Some authors consider R. Fascians and C. Fascians to be the same bacterium. Fasciation induction by the phytopathogen Rhodococcus fascians depends upon a linear plasmid encoding a cytokinin synthase gene. A fasciated mutant in Cucumis melo . Fascinated with Fasciations. Goldman, I.L. 1998.