Vol. 7, Special Issue 6 (2019)
Correlation Studies on pummelo genotypes of West Bengal
Author(s): P Nandi, S Kundu and B Ghosh
Abstract: Pummelo (Citrus grandis Osbeck.) is one of the major monoembryonic species of citrus with good source of vitamin C and calories can easily grow in inferior, marginal and backyard orchard. For Commercial exploitation and crop improvement it demands the survey, identification of elite germplasm and its subsequent utilization through proper plant characterization and comprehensive variability study. The present investigation was carried out by using one twenty four genotypes from fourteen district of West Bengal and bio chemical analysis was done in the laboratory of Department of fruits and orchard management, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal during the year 2016-17 considering seventeen quantitative characters as well as twenty four qualitative characters. For quantitative data Pearson technique of correlation co-efficient and for qualitative data Spearman technique of correlation co-efficient was followed. Yield is one of the important characters which is directly correlated with other characters and produce variability among the germplasms. From this present experiment it can be concluded that Yield character of pummelo is positively correlated with different yield attributing characters like fruit weight, fruit diameter, fruit length, seed length and seed width at 1% level of significance and with segment number and seed weight at 5% level of significance. Similarly, fruit weight had a positive correlation with fruit diameter, fruit length, rind thickness, segment number and seed characters like seed weight, seed length and seed width. Fruit apex and fruit base were positively correlated with fruit surface texture. Nature of oil glands was positively correlated with pulp firmness and vesicle length. So, it revealed that fruit weight, fruit size and number of fruits per plant had a direct impact on fruit yield. Beside this it also revealed that growth of plant had some positive correlation between plant height and canopy spreading.
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P Nandi, S Kundu and B Ghosh. Correlation Studies on pummelo genotypes of West Bengal. International Journal of Chemical Studies. 2019; 7(6): 401-404.
