Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
Vol. 8, Issue 4 (2019)
Genetic analysis of yield and its biometric traits in castor (Ricinus communis L.)
Author(s):
HB Virani, RB Madariya, A Panera and NM Bhut
Abstract:
The P
1, P
2, F
1, F
2, BC
1 and BC
2 of five castor crosses
viz., JM-6 x 48-1, JI-433 x SKI-346, JI-436 x PCS-124, SKI-346 x JI-35 and SKI-346 x SKI-215 were studied for twelve metric traits. The scaling tests revealed the importance of additive-dominance model for number of nodes up to primary raceme in JI-436 x PCS-124. The result of rest of the cases depicted the epistatic digenic model including all types of interactions played a major role for the entire cross combinations. The study revealed the importance of additive and non-additive type of gene action for all the characters studied suggesting the use of reciprocal recurrent selection or biparental mating for improving the characters in castor. Duplicate type epistasis played a greater role than complementary epistasis in most of the cases.
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HB Virani, RB Madariya, A Panera and NM Bhut. Genetic analysis of yield and its biometric traits in castor (Ricinus communis L.). J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2019;8(4):2705-2708.