Genetics of oil and yield related traits in cotton

Abstract

Genetics of oil content, plant height, lint index, ginning out turn and lint weight showed that these traits were controlled by dominant genes and dominance x dominance interactions. The traits viz., monopodial branches, seed cotton yield, boll weight, sympodial branches per plant and number of bolls per plant were controlled by dominance gene effects and additive x additive gene interactions. For seed index, additive gene interaction was prominent.