Agricultural Science Digest

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 26
  • Issue: 1

Sodium azide induced high yielding early mutant in lentil

  • Author:
  • Samiullah Khan, Mohd. Rafiq Wani, Kouser Parveen
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 65 to 66

Mutation Breeding Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202 002, India.

Abstract

Seeds of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) var. Pant L-406 (microsperma)were treated with sodium azide (SA). The treated population showed an increased range of induced variability for various quantitative characters. Few early and high yielding mutants were selected from the M3 population.