Individual and combined effects of plant height reducing genes in periwinkle

Inheritance of an induced bushy mutant (EMS 24-5) of periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) and its genetic relationship with an earlier reported dwarf mutant (NEU 6-15) was studied by crossing it with its parental variety, Nirmal and the dwarf mutant. The bushy mutant was found to be under the control of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Euphytica 2009-12, Vol.170 (3), p.309-316, Article 309
Hauptverfasser: Kulkarni, R. N, Baskaran, K, Shyamaprasad, D. V, Kulkarni, Swaroop S
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Zusammenfassung:Inheritance of an induced bushy mutant (EMS 24-5) of periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) and its genetic relationship with an earlier reported dwarf mutant (NEU 6-15) was studied by crossing it with its parental variety, Nirmal and the dwarf mutant. The bushy mutant was found to be under the control of a monogenic recessive gene (by), which was inherited independently of the recessive gene (dw ₁ ) involved in the dwarf mutant. The double mutant (bydw ₁ ) recombinant, which was recovered from the F₂ generation of the cross (NEU 6-15) × (EMS 24-5), its parental mutants and variety, Nirmal were used for determining the individual and combined effects of plant height reducing genes dw ₁ and by. Individually, the recessive genes by and dw ₁, reduced plant height by 27-30, 64-68%, respectively, while together they reduced plant height by 73-77%. The double mutant recombinant was found to be 63-68 and 25-29% shorter than its parental mutants (EMS 24-5) and (NEU 6-15), respectively. The effects of the recessive gene by on plant height were discernable only after the age of 4 months while those of dw ₁ and combined effects of dw ₁ and by became apparent one to 2 weeks after germination. The double mutant recombinant was found to have higher content of total alkaloids in the roots than parental mutants as well as the variety, Nirmal.
ISSN:0014-2336
1573-5060
DOI:10.1007/s10681-009-9981-9