Assembling, Characterization and Validation of Farmers’ Identified Unique Aromatic Wild Pickle Mango Types in the Central Western Ghats
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2015-09
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University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad
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The Wild Pickle Mangoes (WPM) are special type of genetic resources found along the riverine habitats of Central Western Ghats (CWG), that show unique effervescent aroma and highly preferred for pickle making by the communities. Because of their unique aroma, size and keeping quality, the WPM are in much demand by the farming community as well as by the pickle industry. As a result, farmers of CWG are interested in bringing these genetic resources under cultivation; however, there are very few attempts to domesticate WPM. Thus, the study was aimed to characterize and validate farmers’ varieties in three bio climatic zones of Uttara Kannada district and assembling these varieties in field gene bank. In the study 82 farmers' varieties were identified and characterized adopting standard IPGRI descriptors. About 66 were of the ‘whole fruit pickle’ types and 16 were of the ‘sliced fruit pickle’ types. Coastal region showed higher proprotion of sliced fruit types. Fruit shape showed large variation while that of leaf shape recorded the least; one new type of fruit shape ‘cashew nut’ was coined and introduced to the IPGRI descriptors. The relationship between fruit weight and amount of latex was significant among ‘whole fruit pickle’ types (r=0.332); while that between keeping quality and skin thickness was also strong in ‘whole fruit pickle’ (r=0.247). Fruit size, shape, aroma, quantity of latex, skin thickness, fruit bearing habit and flesh colour/brittleness after one year of keeping in brine solution were the important traits for the selection of elite varieties. Farmers' varieties viz. ‘Dandeli gerappe’, ‘Koralkatta jeerige’, ‘Manjushri heerijeni’, ‘Adderi jeerige’, ‘Bandipal haldota’, ‘Banate appe’ and ‘Haldota’ were identified to be the top. Selected 53 unique wild pickle mango varieties were conserved by establishing a field gene bank at ARS, Malagi, (UAS, Dharwad) with three ramets each were planted.
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