from excised young buds (36 h before anthesis), kept
in PGM-G2 showed )91% germination. Pigeonpea
produces lot of ¯owers but the inherent pod set is only
10±15% of the bloom (Pandey and Singh, 1981). Pollen
germination studies from two different months revealed
that the fewer ¯owers there were on the plant, the greater
the germination percentage. This indicates that at peak
¯owering stage nutrients may be a limiting factor during