Morpho-Physio-Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Different Genotypes of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.)
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2022
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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE SWAMI KESHWANAND RAJASTHAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, BIKANER- 334006
Abstract
Indian ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) is one of the ancient fruit
of India. Indian jujube or Indian ber belongs to the family Rhamnaceae
and its chromosome number is 2n = 48. It is also considered as the
king of arid zone fruits. The Ziziphus genus includes about 135 to 170
species (Islam and Simmons, 2006), and within all of them around 17
are native to India (Pareek, 1983 and Singh et al., 2000). Due to high
nutritional and different medicinal properties of the fruit and low cost
cultivation, it is also considered as poor man‟s fruit (Gajbhiye et al.,
2003). Ber fruit crop is one of the most hardy fruit crop extensively
grown in arid and semi-arid regions of India. It can also be grown
successfully in marginal ecosystems of sub-tropics and tropics
(Pareek, 2001). Due to its deep tap root system, the tree responds well
to a large number of soils. Since, the cultivation of ber required least
care among other fruits plants; the ber trees are suitable to rehabilitate
extensive resource poor areas. Different xerophytic properties of ber
are tap root system, presence of scales on buds and deciduous
behaviour in summer, has made it possible to cultivate successfully in
those areas where no other fruit crop do well (Pareek et al., 2007).
Therefore, it is also popularly called as „Desert Apple‟.