Morphological variations of wheat ( Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell.) under variable ethyl methanesulphonate mutagenesis
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Morphological variations of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell.) under variable ethyl methanesulphonate mutagenesis Boluwatife M. OlaOlorun1 · Hussein Shimelis1 · Mark Laing1 · Isack Mathew1 Received: 17 January 2020 / Accepted: 21 September 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt. 2020
Abstract Genetic gains in wheat yield have stagnated over the years due to genetic drift. There is a need to create new genetic variation for yield using various methods including ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS). The use of EMS mutagenesis is limited by variations in lethality, efficiency and effectiveness, which confound to selection. The objective of this study was to evaluate morphological variation in wheat after EMS mutagenesis. Wheat genotype LM43 was subjected to EMS mutagenesis under the following conditions: 0.1% v/v for 1 h at 25 °C, 0.1% v/v for 1 h at 30 °C and 0.7% v/v for 1.5 h at 25 °C. Some mutant plants in M1 had significantly (p
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