Potato Journal
  • Year: 1981
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

Inheritance of leaf pigmentation in dihaploid-phureja hybrids of potato

  • Author:
  • K.C. Garg, S.P. Tiwari, K.P. Sharma1
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 31 to 34

1Division of Genetics, Central Potato Research Institute, Simla-171001, (Himachal Pradesh).

Abstract

Segregation for pigmentation on dorsal and ventral surface of leaves was studied in selfed and crossed populations of dihaploid-Phureja hybrids. Each of the two characters was found to be controlled monogenically by dominant genes. These two genes were found to be 40 map-units apart.