MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSESSMENT OF LIME GERMPLASM IN NARSINGDI DISTRICT

A K M A Hoque, Q M Ahmed, M M Rahman, N Mohammad and M S Islam
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 221-225

Abstract:

The experiment was conducted to evaluate lime germplasm at the research field of Regional Horticulture Research Station of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Shibpur, Narsingdi with five lime germplasm which all are two years old vegetative sapling. Significant variation was observed in case of growth, yield contributing characters, yield and fruit quality of the germplasm studied. The highest plant height (2.45 m), base girth (0.13 m) and canopy spreading (1.78  1.67 m2) were noted from the germplasm CA Nar-001. On the other hand, the lowest plant height (1.18 m), base girth (0.10 m) and canopy spreading (1.32  1.37 m2) was noted in CA Nar-003. Branching density was dense in CA Nar-001 and CA Nar-003 germplasm but sparse in CA Nar-002 and good in CA Nar-004 and CA Nar-005. Among the germplasm CA Nar-001 was found to free from disease whereas the other lines suffered from canker. Leaf miner was common in case of all the germplasm. Fruit size was the highest in CA Nar-001 (6.42  4.72 cm2) followed by CA Nar-002 (5.31  4.67 cm2). Irrespective of germplasm pulp color was found white. But juicy content high and strong fruit aroma was found in CA Nar-001. The highest edible portion (61.12%) recorded in CA Nar-001 and TSS (7.18%) was noticed from CA Nar-004.

Keywords:

Pulp, fruit aroma, segregation, variability


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A K M A Hoque, Q M Ahmed, M M Rahman, N Mohammad and M S Islam. 2017. MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSESSMENT OF LIME GERMPLASM IN NARSINGDI DISTRICT, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 4(2): 221-225.