The productivity as well as the quality of fruit crops is affected to a greater extent due to various physiological disorders. The extremes of environmental variables like temperature, moisture, light, aeration and nutritional imbalances result in disturbances in the plant metabolic activities...

This book is an up-to-date and informative publication, covering all vital aspects of rejuvenation technology in perennial fruit trees, such as aonla [Phyllanthus emblica], bael [Aegle marmelos], cashew, citrus, guava, jackfruit, litchi, mango and pomegranate. This technology can be adopted in all...

The present study was undertaken to analyze seasonal variations in microbial communities in different fruit tree orchards (mango, guava, ber, bael, jamun, aonla and sweet orange) during summer, rainy and winter season of 2018-19 under semiarid irrigated ecosystem. In rhizosphere and...

Preference to different fruit baits in natural environment of Drosophila from The Dang forest of Gujarat state in India was studied. Ten locally available fruits were used as bait. Two baits, attracting least number of flies at each step, were eliminated and thus only two fruits were left in the...

Over the years, horticulture has emerged as one of the potential agricultural enterprise in accelerating the growth of economy. Its role in the country's nutritional security, poverty alleviation and employment generation programmes is becoming increasingly important. India accounts for 10% of the...

Traditional breeding programmes have been limited to the selection and introduction of genotypes with promising agronomic characteristics, but studies focused on genetic diversity in the low hills of the North West(NW) Himalayas have not been conducted, which is very important for the...

Agro ecosystems in degraded lands are subjected to climate change impacts throughout the globe. Previous work in degraded lands has focused on afforestation and soil conservation, which has obvious limitations in terms of generality and scope of application for production systems in climate change...

Inarching is the most widely practised vegetative method of propagation for multiplication of jackfruit in tarai region, but the method is cumbersome, and produces less number of plants from a single mother plant. Therefore, the present experiment was conducted to find out other alternative method...

The present investigation was carried out to characterize the guava (Psidium guajava) germplasm at morphological level and to identify the promising F₁ hybrid amongst 15 hybrids using morphological traits. Observations were recorded for different traits viz., leaf characters like length and width...