Adansonia diditata L. belongs to family Bombacaceae and it generally known as Afircan baobob. It is called ‘Kalpvriksha’ in India and has mythological significance in India and elseware. In the campus of Sir P. P. Institute of Science, Bhavnagar three Adansonia digitata L. plants have grown up in a row with a distance of about 50 feet. Though, they have grown up and survive in the same natural conditions, variations have been observed in the pigments of leaves and in the color, shape, and size of fruits-two plants have dark green shade leaves and third one has light green shade leaves. Similarly, there are variations in the color, shape, and size of fruits has been observed respectively. In the view of this observation, source and sink is a unique relationship in which leaves are source of photosynthesis and fruits are as sink for photosynthetic products. Leaves do the photosynthesis process and produced food material and are ultimately stored in the fruit. Regarding to this the observations has been made in the reference to photosynthetic pigments analysis and photosynthetic product acumination in fruits. The nutritive value depends on the process of photosynthesis and it is based on the pigment present in the source of photosynthetic pigments the light energy is captured and ultimately acuminates as a food material in fruits. The results of this study give a vast opening of new ideas for further work.
Adansonia digitata L, nutritional values, photosynthetic pigments, source-sink relationship
