Studies on Gene Effects in IntervarietalCrosses of Hirsutum Cotton
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Author:M. Paramjit Singh, V.P. Mittal and K.S. Brar
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:98, Issue:jan-mar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.100237
Abstract
Basic sets of six generations of two varietal crosses of cotton were studied to estimate
nature and magnitude of gene effects operative in the inheritance of yield components and
fibres quality traits. Scaling tests as well as joint scaling test detected the presence of
epistasis for seed cotton yield, bolls per plant, boll weight and 2.5% span length in cross
LH900 x Senegal and for boll weight, ginning outturn and 2.5% span length in cross LH900 x
LRA 5166. Additive-dominance model was sufficient to explain variation in generation means
for the remaining traits. Inheritance pattern of various traits differed in the two crosses and
additive as well as non-additive gene effects were found to be important. Keeping in view the
importance of both additive and non-additive gene effects, it was suggested that sophisticated
selection procedures as recurrent selection and population improvement might be followed
for simultaneous improvement of yield and fibre characters.
Key words : Cotton, gene effects, yield, fibre quality, generation mean analysis, epistasis