Applied Botany Section, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
1. In horse gram the black colour of the seeds and the purple pigment in different parts of the plant are the effects of one gene or a pair of closely linked genes and are dominant over the brown colour of seed and green parts.
2. The earliness in flowering of the black seeded varieties tends to be dominant over the lateness of the brown seeded ones. The number of effective factors concerned have been estimated to be about 1.5.
3. The factor for the pigmentation and the factor or factors for the flowering time are independently inherited.
