Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Wheat Breeding Sub-station, Wellington
1Present address: Division of Botany, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-12
2Present address: United Planters’ Association of Southern India, Scientific Department, Coonoor.
The mode of inheritance of field reaction to yellow rust was studied in nine crosses, involving types belonging to H. vulgare or H. distichon. In all the crosses, resistance to yellow rust was found to be dominant in F1. The F2, F3 and back-cross data showed that resistance is controlled by a single factor pair.
