Studies on Fruit, Quality and Yield Parameters as Influenced by Different Seedling Progenies of Karonda (Carissa carandas L.)

The present investigation was conducted with objectives on the fruit, quality and yield attributes as an influenced by different seedling progenies of Karonda (Carissa carandas). 15 genotypes selected from Kittur Rani Channamma College of Horticulture, Arabhavi during 2011–2012. The variation regarding fruit characters like fruit length (17.28 mm), fruit girth (17.81 mm), fruit weight (2.75 g), number of seeds per fruit (4.07), weight of seeds per fruit (0.28 g), pulp weight (2.47 g) were observedhighest in ARB 4. Where as maximum fruit quality parameters like TSS (14.87°B) in ARB 3, ascorbic acid (34.44 mg/100g), total sugars (19.60%), reducing sugar (18.70%) in ARB 6 and non reducing sugars (1.65%) in ARB 2 were observed. The significantly highest yield was observed in ARB 6 (4.58 tonnes per ha). However yield attributing characters were showed highest in ARB 4 for the characters like numbers of cluster per plant (87.67), number of fruits per cluster (8.93) and number of fruits per plant (789.33).