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BREEDING FOR IMPROVED PLANT TYPE IN PIGEONPEA

Volume : 84
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 12 - 14
Published: July 04, 2023
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Abstract


An attempt was made to breed for improved plant type in pigeonpen by crossing two contrasting parents viz. Vamban-I and Gulbarga-1. The F2 population clearly segregated into four distinct classes of phenotypes (plant types) in the ratio of 50 intermediate erect tall: 14 compact dwarf in the early segregants and 15 tall spreading: 1 compact bushy in the late segregants indicating that the plant type in pigeonpea was controlled by interaction of two pairs of non-allelic linkage blocks designated as DTCLSI and TALS2 and their respective allelic blocks as dtclsl and tais2.

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12 - 14
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Pigeonpea plant type interaction linkage blocks
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