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The percentage of reversion to the parental types is given in Table 3. Plants in the segregating generations were classified into triticale, wheat and intermediate types. Those with compact spike and prominent awns were classified as triticale type, plants with lax spike and comparatively short awns were classified as wheat type. Other plants with mixed morphological features of wheat and triticale were classified as intermediate type. Useful transgressive segregants were observed in all the generations. An unusual observation was that more triticale type plants were recorded in three B1w generations of UPT 75233 x Sonalika, UPT 7681 X UP 262 and UPT 78268 x UP 2003.

It is suggested that in wheat-triticale hybridization programme, triticale should be used as the female parent and the desirable segregants of triticale and intermediate type in the F2 generation of triticale x wheat crosses may be further mated
inter se in order to enlarge the genetic variability.


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