1Horticultural Regional Research Station, Dhaulakuan, Distt Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh - 173 021, India
2Deptt. of Vegetable Sciences, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh-173 230, India
3STPC, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh-173 230, India
*E mail: joshiajayram@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 7 July, 2014.
A male sterile plant named DKC-2363, in the population of chilli line DKC-5 was detected in 2005 at Horticultural Regional Research Station Dhaulakuan (HP). To reproduce the plant progeny, this plant was crossed with seven other male fertile plants of the same population. The F1 population of six crosses produced fertile progeny while the population of a cross named DKC-2363 x P4 segregated into 1:1 ratio of fertile: sterile plants, consecutively for five years. Such inheritance indicates the presence of genic male sterility controlled by single recessive gene.
Capsicum annuum L, spontaneous mutant, genic male sterility, single recessive gene
