Inheritance of Some Qualitative Characters in Momordica Charantia L.

Abstract

A study on the inheritance of some qualitative characters in bittergourd or balsam pear, Momordica charantia L. revealed that (a) the green skin colour of immature fruits was monogenically dominant over the white fruit colour, (b) the dark brown seedcoat colour was dominant over the light colour in a monogenic inheritance and (c) the small size seed was completely dominant over the large size seed where one pair of genes was involved.