Department of Plant Breeding, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand.
* Present address: Department of Plant Breeding, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand 388110.
Genetic study of pod beak and pod constriction was taken up in 14 and 8 crosses, respectively. The presence of pod beak was dominant over beakless andwas inherited as a monogenic character. The F2 phenotypic ratios indicated that pod constriction was govemed by three pairs of independent nuclear genes, which interacted with cytoplasmic factor(s).
Inheritance, pod beak, pod constriction, nuclear genes, plasmon