Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Botany, D.A.V. College, Kanpur 208001.
* Present Address: P.I. Division, Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284003.
Eight intervarietal crosses were successfully made between microspenna and macrosperma varieties of L. culinaris Morphological observations and yield attributes recorded in F1 and F2 generations showed that certain charaders like flower colour and cotyledon colour segregated as per Mendelian Laws, whereas seed coat colour in F3 and subsequent generations appeared in a very large number of intermediate colour combinations. Improvement in 100-seed weight was well marked. Cytological observations showed marked difference in genomes of parent varieties in some hybrids but normal meiosis in most of the PMC confirms dose phylogenetic: relationship between the two subspecies.
Lentil, L. culinaris, crossability, macrosperma, microsperma, yield attributes, cytology, affinity
