Flower color inheritance and its influence to related characters in eggplant
茄子花色遗传及其对相关性状影响的研究

The inheritance of the white-flower and its influence to related characters in eggplant were studied with the white-flowered mutant of XIANLVQIE and its maternal bred.Result showed that the flower color was attributed to a couple of complete dominance genes.Purple color flower "Col" was dominant to the white "col".Compared with the purple-flowered strain,the white-flowered strain not only grew more blooming,but also had more stamens in one flower,less pollens in one anther and less seeds in one fruit.In the meanwhile,in white-flowered eggplants,microspore and fruit was bigger,and yield was higher than purple-flowered.The white-flowered strain could be used as a variety and the white-flowered character could be used as a marker to appraise purity of hybrid in eggplant.