Evaluation of Beal (Aegle marmelos Correa) Genotypes for Marphological, Quality and Yield Related Characters

摘要

Beal fruit is important from religious, nutritional andmedicinal considerations. Wide variations in tree ,leaf, fruit and yieldrelated characters exist in different areas. Therefore, the presentstudy entitled “Evaluation of bael (Aegle marmelos Correa)genotypes for marphological,quality and yield related characters ”was undertaken to evaluate growth and yield in 20 Accessions ofbael from Odisha. This investigation was under taken during 2013 indifferent locations with 3 replications. A single tree was selected fortree characters and five fruits for fruit characters as the ideal samplesize. All the quantitative characters were statistically analyzed andqualitative characters visually observed. The results revealed thatsignificant variation existed in respect of tree height, number ofprimary branches, tree spread, total chlorophyll content of leaf, leafarea, fruit weight, fruit size, number of fruits, pulp weight, rindweight, number of seeds, total seed weight, fiber weight of the fruit.Both fruit weight and pulp weight was recorded maximum in Acc.7while number of fruits were found maximum in Acc.3.