The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding
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  • Year: 1988
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue: 3

A Report on Identification of Necrotic Genes in Some Tetraploid and Hexaploid Wheats

  • Author:
  • A. K. Misra1,, P. K. Gupta1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 321 to 323

1Department of Agricultural Botany, Meerut University, Meerut, 250005

*Department of Botany, NEHU, Shillong, 793014.

Abstract

Crosses were made between hexapioid and tetraploid wheats to obtain pentaploid hybrids. Majority of the crosses showed hybrid necrosis. Taking C-306, Kalyan Sona and Lerma Rojo as testers, the genes carried by other strains have been identified and their genotypic formulae suggesed.

Keywords

Hybrid necrosis, genotypic formulae