ABSTRACT

This experiment will be carried out in 2020 and 2021at

the Nursery of Ornamental Plants, Faculty of Agriculture
South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. Gladiolus
(Gladiolus spp.), the queen of the bulbous ornamentals
,is the leading geophytes grown worldwide for cut flower
trade and garden displays. Gladiolus plant is a tender
herbaceous perennial belonging to the family Iridaceae,
growing from both seeds and corms. It occupies a
pristine place in the garden for its magnificent
inflorescence, wide array of colours, and fascinating
varieties of shapes and sizes. Mutation breeding is a
well-known method for crop improvement, and it has
played a key role in the development of many new
colour/shape mutants in ornamental plants. Induced
mutations with chemical or physical agents, could
successfully use to change the genetic information.
Corms will treat with chemical mutagenesis such as ethyl
methane sulphonate (EMS) or sodium azide (NA3N) and
Isopropyl methane sulphonate (IPMS) to induced genetic
variability in gladiolus plants. corms will be treated using
different doses before planting. During the growth season
different growth parameters such as plant height, corm
weight ,corm diameter will be recorded. The flower traits
included color, size weight in addition to number of
florets will be estimated. The variation among the
estimated data will be calculated to found out the
phenotypic as well as genotypic coefficient of variation
,heritability and genetic advance will be calculated.