RESEARCH ARTICLE

Journal of Oil Palm Research Vol. 4 No. 1 1992 June, p. 19-20

A NOTE ON THE INHERITANCE OF ALBINISM IN OIL PALM

AHMAD KUSHAIRI Din*; RAO V+; RAJANAIDU, N*

ABSTRACT

Albino seedlings were observed among selfings of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) collected in Nigeria. Discrete phenotypic classes of pigmented plants and albinos conformed well with Mendelian ratios tested by Yate’s corrected Chi-square. Albinism in the oil palm was found to be controlled by a recessive gene.

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* Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia,
P O Box 10620,
50720 Kuala Lumpur.

+ Eastern Plantation Agency (Johor) Sdn Bhd.