Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur 482 004.
Inheritance was studied for pink-veined white flower in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). This flower colour is rare in this legume which commonly has pink, white and less frequently blue flowers. A recessive gene, designated ifc, was found to inhibit flower colour without affecting vein colour of the corolla. When ifc was present In homozygous condition, P- B- and pp B-genotypes gave pink-veined white flower and blue-veined white flower, respectively.
Chickpea, flower colour, pink-veined white flower, inheritance
