Indian Journal of Plant Genetic Resources

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue: 1

Heirloom/Seedling Mango Varieties of India –Potentialities and Future

  • Author:
  • MR Dinesh1,, S Rajan2, Sanjay Kumar Singh3, IP Singh4, KV Ravishankar5, BMC Reddy6, VA Parthasarathy7, Bhuwon Sthapit8, V Ramanatha Rao9, BS Sandya1
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 139 to 152

1Division of Fruit Crops, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru-560089, Karnataka, India

2ICAR-Central Institute for Sub Tropical Horticulture, Lucknow-226101, Uttar Pradesh, India

3ICAR-National Research Centre for Litchi, Muzaffarpur-842002, Bihar, India

4ICAR-Central Institute of Citrus Research, Nagpur-440010, Maharashtra, India

5Division of Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru-560089, Karnataka, India

6Dr YSR Horticultural University, Venkataramannagudem-534101, Andhra Pradesh, India

7UNEP-GEF/TFT Project, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru-560089, Karnataka, India

8UNEP-GEF/TFT Project, Bioversity International, Pokhra-11, Nepal

9Bioversity International, Regional Office, New Delhi-110012, India

Abstract

Mango is very widely distributed in India with more than one thousand varieties throughout the tropical and subtropical regions. Most of these varieties are of Seedling origin and are found to be growing as heirloom varieties from generation to generation. Survey carried out under the UNEP-GEF TFT project in the four sites viz., Chittoor, Amravathi, Pusa and Malihabad resulted in the documentation of Seedling types, which showed desirable traits in them. These varieties evaluated in situ, ex situ resulted in indicating the desirable traits, which would help in introgression through breeding. The promising among them were registered. Some of these heirloom varieties can be directly adopted for commercial cultivation. The diversity analysis based on the morphological characteristics showed similar trend as the molecular characterization.

Keywords

Diversity, Heirloom, Indigenous, Mango, Variability