Studies on flowering behavior and seed yield of BC4F1 hybrid progenies in Jatropha

Umamaheswar, D. and Sumathi, K. and Sudhagar, R.J. and Devanand, P.S. and Viswanathan, P.L. and Paramathma, M. (2010) Studies on flowering behavior and seed yield of BC4F1 hybrid progenies in Jatropha. Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 1 (4). pp. 1066-1069.

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Abstract

Field investigation was carried out by the Centre of Excellence in Biofuels, TNAU, Coimbatore during kharif 2009, to study the number of male and female flowers per cluster and seed yield per plant in BC4F1 progenies of Jatropha. The eighteen BC4F1 progenies used in this study were developed from interspecific hybridization of Jatropha curcas x J. integerrima followed by four repeated backcrossing with Jatropha curcas (TNMC-7). Based on the per se performance, three introgressed progenies viz., 3-20-9-3, 3-20-9-2 and 3-95-7-5-4 were found to be significant for the traits viz., number of female flowers per cluster and seed yield per plant.

Item Type: Article
Author Affiliation: Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003
Subjects: Crop Improvement > Seed Technology
Divisions: Other Crops
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 31 Oct 2010 20:39
Last Modified: 29 Dec 2010 20:56
Official URL: http://sites.google.com/site/ejplantbreeding/vol-1...
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/405

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