Ongoing
Project Details
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Objective
Objective
- Conserving the germplasm of mango, guava, papaya, pomegranate, sapota, custard apple, strawberry and passion fruit.
- Production of mango hybrids which are dwarf, precocious with good yield and quality.
- Production of guava hybrids suitable for both processing and fresh fruit market.
- Production of sapota hybrids which are dwarf in nature with good yield and quality fruits.
- Commercialization of well adopted under-utilized fruits
- Production of jackfruit and pummelo varieties besides conservation and utilization in crop improvement programmes.
- Production of papaya hybrids which are gynodioecious with good yield, quality, good shelf life and tolerant to ‘PRSV’ and drought.
- To develop a bacterial blight resistant pomegranate variety in pomegranate and to develop a genotype of custard apple with self-fruitfulness.
- To develop superior strawberry cultivars resistant to fungal diseases and well adapted to growing conditions of mild-tropical climate and to develop excellent strawberry cultivars that are extra-early, early, mid -season, and late -season (have an appropriate harvest calendar) large -sized, wedge-shaped fruits, with extended shelf life and a low percentage of second quality fruits.
- To evaluate and screen Passiflora species (and accessions) for root /collar rot resistance and other diseases and to produce superior Passiflora through cross-breeding either as a popular commercial cultivar or root stock to existing commercial cultivars.
- To develop grape rootstocks having the vigour and the graft intake of Dogridge characteristics with increased salinity tolerance, drought, flood resistance and induction of vigour to scions.
