Volume 6 Issue 1, June 1996: 85-90
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hybridization between Gossypium herbaceum and Gossypium stochsii through embryo rescue
GILL MANJEET S, YPS BAJAJ
Punjab Agricultureal University, Ludhiana, India
Correspondence: YPS BAJAJ
Natrient media and culture conditions have been defined for ovules 3 and 5 d after pollination and embryos of Gossypium herbaceum respectively. The technique was then used to produce interspecific hybrids between a cultivated Gossypium herbaceum and a wild species. G. shocksii. The hybrid plants were transferred to field and they existed most of the characters of the pollen parent i.e. G.stocksii.
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