National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Citrus indica is a wild endangered species of Citrus which is being protected and conserved at Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, which has been designated as Citrus Gene Sanctuary. Therefore, villages near this reserve were selected with an objective to document the diversity of Citrus indica Tanaka so as to identify ideal accessions for different purposes. Samples were collected from 10 different locations and were evaluated for various qualitative and quantitative parameters. The analysis of variance for physical characters: tree height (m), trunk girth (cm), tree spread (m), leaf length (cm), leaf width (cm), fruit length (cm), fruit width (cm), fruit weight (g), number of fruit segment, juice content (%), rind thickness (mm), seed length (mm), seed width (mm), seed weight (g) and number of seeds per fruit; biochemical parameters: TSS (oBrix), total sugar (%), reducing sugar (%), non-reducing sugar (%), acidity (%), pH and ascorbic acid (mg/100g) were evaluated and significant variability for each trait among accession were observed. Based on fruit quality, accession from L-09SS was best and can be used for conservation, domestication, multiplication and breeding programmes. Correlation studies of 23 characters were evaluated and significant positive and negative correlation among some characters were observed.
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