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Okra’s (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) commercial cultivation is threatened in the tropics due to high incidence of yellow vein mosaic virus (YVMV) disease. Okra geneticists across the world tried to understand the inheritance pattern of YVMV disease tolerance without much success. Therefore, the inheritance pattern of YVMV disease in okra was revisited by employing six generations (\(\hbox {P}_{1}\), \(\hbox {P}_{2}\), \(\hbox {F}_{1}\), \(\hbox {F}_{2}\), \(\hbox {BC}_{1}\) and \(\hbox {BC}_{2}\)) of four selected crosses (one tolerant \(\times \) tolerant, two tolerant \(\times \) susceptible and one susceptible \(\times \) susceptible) using two tolerant (BCO-1 and Lal Bhendi) and two susceptible (Japanese Jhar Bhendi and PAN 2127) genotypes. Qualitative genetic analysis was done on the basis of segregation pattern of tolerant and susceptible plants in \(\hbox {F}_{2}\) and backcross generations of all the four crosses. It revealed that a single dominant gene along with some minor factors governed the disease tolerant trait in both the tolerant parents used. However, it was observed that genes governing disease tolerance identified in both the tolerant variety used was different. It could be concluded that the gene governing YVMV disease tolerance in okra was genotype specific. Further, duplicate gene action as evident from an approximate ratio of 15 : 1 (tolerant : susceptible) in the \(\hbox {F}_{2}\) population in the cross of two tolerant varieties gave a scope of increasing the tolerance level of the hybrid plants when both the tolerant genes are brought together. However, generation mean analysis revealed involvement of both additive and nonadditive effects in the inheritance of disease tolerance. Thus, the present study confirms that a complicated genetic inheritance pattern is involved in the disease tolerance against YVMV trait. The major tolerance genes could be transferred to other okra varieties, but the tolerance breaking virus strains might not allow them to achieve tolerance in stable condition. Therefore, accumulation of additional genes may be needed for a sustainable tolerance phenotype in okra.
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First author acknowledges the financial help rendered by Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, New Delhi, India in the form of scholarship during the last year of the research programme.
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Senjam, P., Senapati, B.K., Chattopadhyay, A. et al. Genetic control of yellow vein mosaic virus disease tolerance in Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench. J Genet 97, 25–33 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-017-0876-6
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