Genetic Studies of Induced Mutants in Melilotus alba. I. Short-Internode Dwarf, Curled Leaf, Multifoliolate Leaf, and Cotyledonary Branching

Authors

B. G. Gengenbach
Francis A. Haskins, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
H. J. Gorz

Date of this Version

10-1969

Comments

Published in CROP SCIENCE, VOL. 9, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1969.

Abstract

Information obtained from the F₁, F₂, and F₃ generations of crosses between the normal annual M. alba progenitor line and the four mutants, short-internode dwarf, curled leaf, multifoliolate leaf, and cotyledonary branching, indicates that each character is conditioned by a single pair of alleles. The multifoliolate leaf character is dominant over the normal phenotype; the other three mutant characters are recessive. The symbols dw, cl, Mf, and cb are proposed as designations for the respective mutant genes.