Performance of Induced Mutants in Moth Bean

Seeds of ‘Jadia’ variety of moth bean [Vigor acomlifolia (Jacq.) Marechal] were treated with aqueous solutions of EMS with 0- 3% concentrations and 2”) mutants showing a higher number of pods than the patents were isolated in the M₂ generation. The mutants were further carried forward upto M₅ and M₆ generation and tested uuder dry band conditions for then yield performance along with other high yielding varieties. It was observed that mutants. ‘JMM-211’. ‘JMM-259’ and ‘JMM-60’ consistently maintained supertority 111 yield and pod number per plant over then puent ‘Jadia’ under varying conditions of rainfall. They also exhibited a combination of higher yield potential, earliness in maturity and high degree of tolerance to drought conditions It has been proved that variation for pod number pel plant and growth pattern m moth bean could be brought about by induced mutations.