INHERITANCE OF SEED WEIGHT IN COWPEA (VIGNA UNGUICULATA L. WALP)

Abstract

Seed size is an important agronomic trait and a major yield component in most of the pulse crops. Large seeds are preferred by the consumer in cowpea also. There are contradictory results with regard to relative importance of additive, dominance and epistatic effects in the inheritance of seed size in a cross between large and small seeded cultivar [1].