1College of Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Gujarat-396 450, India
Department of Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources, Dr. Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173 230, India
*E-mail: anita_78@ymail.com
Online published on 25 September, 2023.
The study was confined to 19 mother trees of Diospyros montana (Roxb.) distributed in Solan districts of Himachal Pradesh. Variation in fruit, seed and seedling traits were studied by collecting fruits and raising nursery of this species. There was large variation in fruit and seed traits. The maximum fruit weight, fruit length, fruit width and germination per cent was recorded for M5 and M7. Seedling parameters were recorded maximum for M7. Repeatability coefficient was recorded maximum for seed length. GCV, PCV and heritability was recorded maximum for germination percent. This study revealed that fruit size and germination parameters could form a selection criterion for tree improvement in D. montana
Variation, Diospyros, Repeatability, PCA, Clusters, Correlation
