Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, G.B. Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar-263 145, India
Two lines with white flower (PG-82-1, L-550) and two lines with pink flower (Pant G114, C235) were planted for crossing in chickpea, using pink flowered lines as male parents. Three hundred selected buds in each cross were pollinated with and without emasculation, respectively. In the F1, plants with pink flowers ranged from 6.00% to 10.33% and from 17.66% to 24.66% with an average of 8.08% and 21.66% in method I and method II respectively. It indicates that method II (without emasculation) of hybridization can be efficiently used in presence of marker gene.
