Madras Agricultural Journal
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Inheritance of Testa Colour in Groundnut (Arachis hy pogaea L.)

Abstract

Analysis of nine Fe progenies of intervarietal hybrids in (A. hypogaea) groundnut showed that red testa in monogenic and dominant to rose; purple is also monogenic but incompletely dominant to rose. A three factor segregation is met with in crosses between varieties possessing red x white and rose x white colour of testa indicating that the varieties with white colour of testa also carried the factor for red

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