Inheritance of glume size and awn length in sorghum

Jowett, D. (1968) Inheritance of glume size and awn length in sorghum. Crop Science, 8 (3). pp. 342-345.

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Abstract

Genetic studies on the inheritance of awn length and glume size in sorghum indicate that (a) both characters are inherited in a quantitative fashion, (b) short awns and small glumes are strongly (but incompletely) dominant, (c) awnless is apparently due to an accumulation of short-awn alleles, (d) epistasis is important in the inheritance of glume size but not of awn length, and (e) linkage may be important in the inheritance of awn length.Analysis into Mather's D and H components of variance was unsatisfactory owing to the high correlation of D and H. Analysis into Hayman's components of the mean was more satisfactory, but cannot be regarded as quantitatively accurate.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Associate Professor, Statistics Laboratory, Iowa State University
Subjects: Crop Improvement > Genetics/Genomics
Divisions: Sorghum
Depositing User: Sandhya Gir
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2010 08:14
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2010 08:14
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci1968.0011183X0008...
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/304

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