Progressive Horticulture

Wood apple is a very useful tree for planting in waste land, boundaries of farm lands in tree grooves, hill side slopes in areas of very low rainfall. Wood apple's fruit is used for cattle feed, gum fuel and preserve products (jelly, chutney, jam, beverage, syrup, nectar, wood apple cream and candy). Rich biodiversity is observed in wood apple and therefore are experiment was conducted in the Laboratory of Department of Horticulture, Janta P.G. College, Bakewar, Etawah during the year 2008–09 to evaluate six germplasms. The experiment was laid out in Complete Block Design (CRD) with six replications. The six treatments/genotypes (G1, G2, G3, G4, G5 and G6) were collected from different localities of Etawah and Kanpur Dehat districts of V.P. Fruits of all genotypes were round shaped. Physico-chemical analysis of fruits revealed that the average fruit weight ranged from 140.08 to 256.65 g, fruit length and width from 6.50 to 8.40 em and 6.16 to 7.43 em respectively, volume of fruit from 81.66 to 248.50 cc, specific gravity from 1.04 to 1.74, shell thickness from 0.30 to 0.20 mm and pulp weight from 60.33 to 176.00 g, number of seeds per fruit from 260.50 to 471.66, seed weight per fruit from 8.83 to 15.66 g, seed weight percentages from 8.24 to 13.96%, pulp weight percentage from 86.04 to 91.76 and pulp: seed ratio from 7.60:1 to 12.30:1. Total soluble solids ranged from 12.45 to 14.67 0 Brix, acidity from 3.65 to 4.41%, ascorbic acid from 4.87 to 6.26 mg (per 100 g), TSS: Acid ratio from 3.28:1 to 3.73:1, reducing from 2.70 to 3.11%, non-reducing sugar from 4.90 to 6.79% and total sugar from 7.60 to 9.74%.