ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on techniques used to screen for kernel colour and sprouting resistance, and to verify the recovery of sprouting resistance. Reports of a positive relationship between red kernel coat colour and resistance to sprouting include F. Gfeller and F. Svedja; F. N. Khan and E. N. Strand; P. S. Wellington and V. M. Durham. I. L. Gordon detected only a moderate relationship between kernel coat colour and resistance to sprouting in 97 genotypes of several Triticum species. Obviously in 1984 the response to selection for resistance to sprouting (SR) would have been less effective because of a reduced level of phenotypic variation for SR which points to the need for using multi-environments to verify detection of SR. An unequivocal determination of kernel coat colour is required to select for a recombination of SR from red-kernelled wheats in white-kernelled segregates. Since the genes will be in either a homozygous or heterozygous condition, some white-kernelled types will be recovered the following generation from the heterozygotes.
