Biologia plantarum 34:461-464, 1992 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02923602
Effect of temperature onin vitro pollen germination in pigeonpea
- 1 Department of Botany, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India
Pollen of pigeonpea(Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) cultivars H-77-216 and ICPL-151 were cultivatedin vitro at six different temperatures (12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37 °C). Pollen of cv. H-77-216 started to germinate at 17 °C whereas the pollen of cv. ICPL-151 at 22 °C, the optimal temperatures were 22 and 27 °C, respectively. Pollen germination at different temperatures was found to be positively correlated with the tube length. Per cent pollen bursting increased with rising temperature. The indeterminate cv. H-77-216 showed a wide range of suitable temperatures (17 - 27 °C) for pollen germination while the determinate cv. ICPL-151 had optimum at 27 °C
Received: March 5, 1991; Accepted: August 22, 1991; Published: September 1, 1992 Show citation
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