Transgressive Segregation in the Wide and Varietal Crosses of Blackgram (Vigna Mungo L. Hepper)

In general, significantly superior transgressive segregants were obtained in the BC₁F₂ population for all the important characters, viz., pods/plant, pods/cluster, seed weight and yield/plant. This reveals that introgression of wild germplasm created large amount of genetic variability and ultimately the frequency of transgressive segregants for yield increased. These results suggested that only one backcross with the recurrent parent may be enough to achieve higher proportion of transgressive segregation in the wide crosses of blackgram.