2Formerly graduate Reasearch Fellow in the Department of Farm crops, Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon. U.S.A., now Agronomist, Regional Research Centre Oilseeds (I.C.A.R.) Patiala, Punjab (India).
1Part of a thesis submitted to the Graduate faculty Oregon State College, Corvallis, Oregon (U.S.A.) in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Ph.D. degree by the author.