1Seed Research and Technology Centre, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, E-mail: sowmyarao.t@gmail.com
2National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
3Telangana State Seed Certification Agency, HACA Bhavan, 1st Floor, Hyderabad
4Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad
Classification of green gram accessions for various qualitative characters serves as a key for the identification of different accessions on the basis of growth habit, stem pubescence, leaf pubescence, leaf size (at 5th node from the base), pod position, pod colour, curvature of mature pod, seed lustre, seed colour and seed shape. Among the distinct morphological traits, seed luster may serve as a key character and useful in broad classification of genotypes into different groups rather than of individual genotype. Therefore, the study suggested that some of these distinct morphological traits can be considered as key characters and useful for seed production progammes in varietal identification and identification of off types in seed plots of different classes of seed.
Characterization, green gram, qualitative traits
