Instability of a novel multicolored flower trait in inbred and outcrossed soybean lines

A study was conducted to analyze the stability of a unique multicolored flower trait in inbred and outcrossed soybean lines. The soybeans were grown under standard conditions while crosses between mutable lines were carried out in field plots. Results indicated that the colors of the soybean seed coat were produced by a pieiotropic effect on the wp/wp flower color genotype with the homozygous i/i genotype for seed color. Findings also showed that a number of loci segregated independently.