Progressive Horticulture
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue: 2

Effect of ethrel spray on the incidence of floral malformation and physiological changes in floral buds of mango

  • Author:
  • D. Pandey, S.N. Pandey
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 171 to 173

Division of Fruits and Horticultural Technology, IARI, New Delhi

*Present address: Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehmankhera, P.O. Kakori, Lucknow-227 107, U.P.

Online published on 6 January, 2014.

Abstract

The present study was undertaken at IARI Pusa New Delhi, to study effect of ethrel spray on incidence of malformation and physiological changes flowers of Amrapali. In the present study it hasbeen observed that reductional in the incidence of floral malformation by ethrel spray was found to be associated with increase in IAA, GA3, ABA, polyphenl oxidase activity and decrease in IAA oxidase activity and total phenods.