1Department of Agroforestry and Environment, Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
2Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, 218 -Kaulagarh Road, Dehradun -248 195, Uttarakhand
*E-mail: charan_forest@rediffmail.com
Online published on 22 August, 2013.
A phenology study was carried out to know the effect of microzonal variation on the different phenophase like flowering, fruiting, seed maturation and seed dispersal etc. of important fodder shrubs of Himachal Himalayas i.e. Desmodium tiliaefolium, Berberis lyceum, Indigofera pulchella, Carissa carandas, Debregeasia hypoleuca and Rubus ellipticus. In case of Indigofera pulchella and Debregeasia hypoleuca a particular phytophase like flowering was enhanced by exactly 30 days at one site and plants were in flowering phase for 120 days as compared to other two sites where flowering continued only for 90 days due to minute temperature variation. Similarly, flowering phase was enhanced in Desmodium tiliaefolium, Berberis lyceum, Carissa carandas and Rubus ellipticus due to minute temperature variation.
Microzonal variation, Phenophase, Phytophase, Shrubs
