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CONCEPT OF SEED HARDNESS IN POMEGRANATE – I) ANATOMICAL STUDIES IN SOFT AND HARD SEEDS OF ‘MUSKAT’ POMEGRANATE
Article number
1089_11
Pages
97 – 104
Language
English
Abstract
Maharashtra is a leading state in pomegranate cultivation and Ahmednagar district is the main pomegranate pocket of Maharashtra.
The Muskat cultivar of pomegranate is famous in this region.
However, orchards in this region are sprung up through seedling selection and that is why there is considerable heterozygosity in the mellowness of seeds.
To find out any anatomical difference existing in these seedling progenies, the present investigation was carried out.
The anatomical study revealed that there was not much difference in the structure and in the radial length of the mesotesta and the sarcotesta of the soft and hard seeds of pomegranate fruit except in the thickening of the cell wall of the mesotesta.
In soft seeds, thick walled sclerotic cells were observed near the tegmen only, while in the hard seeds the cells of entire mesotesta with the exception of a few cell near the sarcotesta were thickened.
The Muskat cultivar of pomegranate is famous in this region.
However, orchards in this region are sprung up through seedling selection and that is why there is considerable heterozygosity in the mellowness of seeds.
To find out any anatomical difference existing in these seedling progenies, the present investigation was carried out.
The anatomical study revealed that there was not much difference in the structure and in the radial length of the mesotesta and the sarcotesta of the soft and hard seeds of pomegranate fruit except in the thickening of the cell wall of the mesotesta.
In soft seeds, thick walled sclerotic cells were observed near the tegmen only, while in the hard seeds the cells of entire mesotesta with the exception of a few cell near the sarcotesta were thickened.
Authors
K.H. Pujari, D.A. Rane
Keywords
seed hardness, ‘Muskat’ pomegranate, anatomical
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