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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2021, Volume : 9, Issue : 1
First page : (259) Last page : (266)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8582

Germplasm Survey, Collection and Evaluation of ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk) under Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh

Pradeep Kumar, A.K. Srivastava* , Om Prakash, Nidhika Thakur and Pradeep Singh
Department of Fruit Science
Banda University of Agriculture and technology Banda 210001, (U.P.) India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: srivastavahort@yahoo.com
Received: 3.11.2020 | Revised: 7.12.2020 | Accepted: 11.12.2020 

 ABSTRACT

Ber is grown under rain-fed condition in arid and semi-arid regions of India and has been identified as highly draught and heat tolerant fruit crop. Bundelkhand region is rich in biodiversity for ber (Ziziphus mauritianna Lamk) and the agro-climatic condition of Bundelkhand has great potential for its commercial cultivation. Keeping these points in view, twenty-four genotypes of ber fruits were collected from diverse areas of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and analyzed for various physic - chemical and morphological attributes. The results of the study revealed wide range of variability in morphological, quantitative, and qualitative and biochemical attributes. The variability for quantitative parameters for in ber was observed for fruit length (1.6 cm to 4.4 cm), fruit width (1.3 cm to3.5cm), fruit weight (6 g to30.5g), specific gravity (0.59 to 1.05 g/cc), stone length (1.4 cm to 2.57 cm), stone width (0.80 cm to 1.5cm), and stone weight (3.3g to 9.1 g). The bio-chemical parameters also showed wide range of variation i.e. TSS (14.3 0Brix to20.5 0Brix), acidity (0.19% to 0.60 %), total sugar (4.43 % to 9.53 %), protein (1.3 to 4.49 %), ascorbic acid (69.67mg/100g to 135.37 mg/100g) and TSS/acidity ratio (28.71 to 85.42 ratio). Therefore, on the basis of morphological, quantitative and bio-chemical quality attributes, genotypes FS/Ber-2, FS/Ber-4, FS/Ber-5, FS/Ber-10 and FS/Ber-15 werescreened as promising genotypes in terms of fruit shape, size, colour and fruit quality attributes. These promising genotypes can be recommended for commercial multiplication, growing at farmer’s field and conservation in the field gene bank for further evaluation and crop improvement.

Keywords: Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana L.), Variability, Diversity, Total sugar, TSS, and Fruits size.

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Cite this article: Kumar, P., Srivastava, A. K., Om Prakash, Thakur, N., & Singh, P. (2021). Germplasm Survey, Collection and Evaluation of ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk) under Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 9(1), 259-266. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8582