Division of Agricultural Botany, College of Agriculture, Dharwad, 580005, Karnataka, India
**Present Address: Ragi Breeding Section, Regional Research Station, V C. Farm, Mandya—571405.
*Part of the thesis submitted by the senior author to the University of Agric. Sciences, ’ Bangalore for the M. Sc. (Agri) Degres
The inheritance and interrelationships of seven qualitative characters were stud ed in sorghum (Sorghum bi color (L) Moench) cross ‘CS 3541 x IS 4610’, The inheritance of nature of pedicelled spikelet, glurr.e colour (ventral side), and the tip cf the grain were studied for the first time. The existence of both pleiotropy between leaf sheath covering and glume color and linkage between the genes, plan! or leaf sheath colour (Ai-P), glume colour (DP), pedicelled spikelet (Pr), leaf sheath covering (Lt2), grain shape (U) and tip of the grain (Gt) were noticed. The linked genes form a part of linkage group II.
