Crop Cultivation

20 May Jelly seed formation in mango, it's possible causes and management

आम में अत्यधिक ऊतक गलन, इसके कारण और प्रबंधन Mango the king of fruit occupies approximately 50% of all tropical fruits produced worldwide. Mango is growing in many countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Mexico, Phillipines, Pakistan, Vietnam and Thialand. Mango is nutritionally rich and its pulp contains good dietary fiber, pro-vitamin A, Vitamin C and diverse polyphenols Further, India share approx. 49.62 per cent of area and nearly 42.06 per cent of world’s mango production. Moreover, mango production in Uttar Pradesh was the highest i.e. 23.85 per cent in country. Various varieties of mango are cultivated in India but Dashehari stood first in terms of choice particularly in U.P. Dashehari fruit size is medium, shape is elongated with yellow fruit colour. But, the problem of tissue softening (jelly seed) disorder is very high in Dashahari mango (Singh et al., 2006). Several commercially grown mango varieties in India such as ‘Dáshehari’, Langra, Chousa, Bombay green (Singh 2011, Srivastav et al., 2015) or exotic varieties such as ‘Tommy Atkins’, ‘Sensation’, ‘Zill’ and ‘Kent’ (Oosthuyse 1993) are susceptible to jelly-seed disorder. Among these varieties the incidence of JS (excessive softening of tissue of pulp around the stone) is very high in Dashehari, thus need major attention, and it brought down the export potential of this...