Induced polygenic variability in black gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper]

Abstract

Black gram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] is one of the important pulse crops considered as nutritious, but its productivity is very low. The most prominent constraint in its production is terminal drought under rainfed conditions. Induced mutations may prove promising for the improvement of quantitatively inherited characters in black gram. Recently developed long duration but well adopted variety Barkha was chosen for induction of variability through chemical mutagenesis.