V. OTHER CHARACTERS. 



In addition to the investigations on the inheritance of felted 

 chaff, red grain colour and the bearding of wheat, some other charac- 

 ters have been studied, three of which are referred to briefly in this 

 section. The complete investigations on these points will be dealt 

 with in later papers. The characters in question are the con- 

 sistency of the grain, the shattering of the ear and standing power. 



Consistency of the Grain. 



The results of our investigations on the influence of the 

 environment on the consistency of wheat are now being pub- 

 lished. It has been found that wheats can be divided into three 

 groups as regards this matter. In the majority of Indian wheats, 

 whether soft or translucent, this character is greatly influenced by 

 the environment, and soft wheats are easily changed to translucent 

 and vice versa. A few translucent wheats, however, have a decided 

 tendency to remain translucent under all conditions, while some soft 

 wheats have so far remained soft no matter how or where they are 

 grown. In one of the crosses at Pusa one of these constant soft 

 white wheats was crossed with a strong translucent amber wheat 

 and the segregation was so clear in the F 2 that counts were made. 

 The Fj was intermediate and the F 2 split sharply into soft, semi- 

 translucent and translucent in the ratio 1:2:1. It will be seen 

 from the following table that the results obtained are practicallv 

 identical with expectation : — 



