The necessity and feasibility of improving the protein content and its quality in wheat have been stressed by SWAMINATHAN(1) and BORLAUG(2). As high as 20% Protein has been recorded in wheat (JOHNSON et al.(3) and AUSTIN et al.(4)). BORLAUG(2) and JOHNSON et al.(3) have shown that higher protein quantity of superior quality can easily be incorporated in high yielding strains of wheat through hybridization in widely divergent genotypes. Since a knowledge of the genetics of protein characters would be helpful in breeding, an attempt was made to identify the genes associated with high protein content and to locate the same on specific chromosomes through monosomic analysis.

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