The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding
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  • Year: 1994
  • Volume: 54
  • Issue: 1

Inheritance of male sterility in job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.)

  • Author:
  • Panuganti N. Rao, A. Nirmala
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 10 to 12

Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 530003.

Abstract

Male sterility (rudimentary male spikes with emptyflorets) located in the cultivar Romanet of Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi var. Ma-Yuen (Romanetl Stapf) is inherited as a monogenic recessive trait (gene ms1).

Keywords

Job's tears, Coix lacryma-jobi, male sterility, inheritance