Morphological, biochemical and male-meiotic characterization of apple (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i> Borkh.) germplasm of Kashmir Valley

Abstract

Kashmir Valley represents the richest repository of apple germplasm in India. A total of six cultivars based on commercial value namely Kullu Delicious, Gole Delicious, Lal Ambri, Raj Ambri, American Trel and Ambri Cross were studied using 38 morphological characters with main emphasis on fruit and leaf morphology. The fruit characteristics such as shape, size, flesh and skin colour, pH, TSS and fruit firmness are the most important market value traits of apple which together determine the quality of apple and its commercial success. All the six cultivars exhibited distinct characteristics with respect to these traits. Based on fruit quality traits, the cvs. Kullu Delicious, Lal Ambri and American Trel are highly acceptable in the Indian fruit market compared to other cultivars which have not attained commercial status as yet. All the six cultivars were found diploid with 2n=34. Chromosomal abnormalities such as univalents, precocious separation, non disjunction, disturbed anaphase and telophase, polysporads etc. were noticed during the male-meiotic analysis.

La Diversidad Fenotípica De Manzano en Zacatlán, Puebla, México Es Amplia Y Es Aportada Principalmente Por Características De Fruto

“…Pérez-Romero et al (2015), Božović et al (2015) y Kalkisim et al (2016) reportaron resultados similares. En otros estudios sólo se han utilizado variables del fruto para describir tipos y variedades de manzana (Sebek, 2013b;Dar et al, 2015;Farina et al, 2016). Por los resultados obtenidos en este estudio, y los otros citados, se puede señalar que las características morfológicas y bioquímicas del fruto son las más importantes para describir la variación presente en manzano.…”

Medicinal Uses of Edible Vegetables by Nomadic Community of Pir Panjal Region of District Rajouri Jammu & Kashmir (UT) - India

“…The present study was accomplished to document of the medicinal uses on the edible vegetables of Pir Panjal region of district Rajouri, State Jammu and Kashmir India, it is located at southern part of Jammu division in the foot hill of Pir Panjal range between 32°-58′ and 33°-35′ latitude and 74°-81′ longitude at an elevation range of 370-6000 msl, It is bounded on the eastern side by district Reasi Western side by Pok, Northern side by District Poonch it is about 915,m above the sea level . Covering an area of 2630 sq.km, and as population of 6, 19,266 per 2011 census [15].The present communication pertains to wild edible vegetables were collected from of Pir Panjal region and adjoining area of district rajouri State Jammu and Kashmir India, and were identified with the help of local flora of Udhampur [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. General information about the medicinal uses of edible vegetables was collected from the local peoples.…”

Morphological characterization of 23 Malus domestica Borkh cultivars from central Spain

“…This is the case of Ganopoulos et al (2018) where they highlighted other types of fruit characteristics, such as the number of loculi (FrLoc), pulp colour (FrMCol), russeting on fruit faces (FrRF) and calyx opening diameter (FrCCD). The importance of fruit descriptors in the total variance can be explained because it is the organ where selection is performed ( Šebek, 2013;Božović et al, 2015;Dar et al, 2015;Pérez-Romero et al, 2015;Salkić et al, 2017;Posadas-Herrera et al, 2018).…”

“…As a result, apple morphological descriptions were conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Gaši et al, 2011), Canada (Watts et al, 2021), Hungary (Király et al, 2015), India (Dolker et al, 2021), Iran (Farrokhi et al, 2013), Italy (Martinelli et al, 2008), the Kashmir Valley (Dar et al, 2015), Macedonia (Kiprijanovski et al, 2020), Montenegro (Božović et al, 2015), Serbia (Mratinić et al, 2012) and Turkey (Karatas, 2022), reporting high morphological diversity. The most common morphological descriptors used in those works belong to international guidelines such as IBPGR (1982) and UPOV (2005) and they focus on fruit characteristics because sensorial characteristics and consumer demand focus on fruits (Pereira-Lorenzo et al, 2018).…”