Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources
  • Year: 2003
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 2

Diversity of Fruits in Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria L.) Collected from Mainpuri District, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Author:
  • KP Singh1, SVS Chauhan2, Umesh Srivastava3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 103 to 106

1Department of Botany, R.B.S. College, Agra-282002 (Uttar Pradesh).

2Department of Botany, School of Life Sciences, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra-282002 (Uttar Pradesh).

3NBPGR, Pusa Campus, New Delhi-110012.

Abstract

A great deal of diversity in fruits as well as seeds in bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria L.) was observed in Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh (India). Variability in fruit and seed shape, size and colour, their uses are described in the present paper.

Keywords

Bottle gourd, Gennplasm, Diversity, Kamandal