The author has attempted to investigate the relations between various strains of“.osogara No. 2” with respect to growth habit.
The experimental results may be summarized as follows.
1. The percentage of plants with long auricles was a heritable character in each strain. Most of the plants of
A-, C-and
D-strains and a few plants of
A-S-, E-, F- and
G-strains had long auricles on the first leaf (Table 1).
2. As has been seen from Table 2, most of the plants of the X-group and none of those of the Z-group had hairs on the leaf sheath. In the
D-strain hair development was strongly affected by environmental conditions. Short basale bristle (rachilla hair) gene (
s) occurred mainly in the X-group, though in low frequency (Table 3).
3. It was found that the Z-group was homogeneous with respect to spring habit, which might be in this group of the character of the so-called “Wechseltyp”.
A-S-strain of the X-group was of pure spring habit, though a few lines were recognized as belonging to Z type. A great deal of plants of the X-group were of fairly high degree winter habit, and those of the
D-strain were of moderate winter habit.
4.
A-strain contained the most abundant variability in all characters, especially in the date of heading. Its genetic constitution was estimated (Table 5). How such a variability could have been maintained is discussed.
5. In the
A-strain, the correlation coefficient between date of heading and ear length, density of spike, and grain size were in 1953+0.5323**, +0.5173** and -0.3838**, respectively. This result suggests that variability in the date of heading must have been in this strain associated with the variations in the other characters examined.
6. It was found that the percentage of spring habit type in
A-strain has been maintained around a certain mode during about 15 years.
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