Morphological Studies of Acid Lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) Genotypes of North Western Regions of India

Author: Shilpy Kumari*, Akash Sharma, Romesh Salgotra, Manish Sharma and Prabhdeep Singh

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Abstract

Acid lime is an important cultivated fruit species with high morphological variability. This variability has been used by breeders and common people to practically distinguish different lime genotypes. Despite such well known variation, so far there is no published study specifically addressed the extent of phenotypic variability in Jammu region. Hence the present study was carried out to identify acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) accessions using morphological characteristics. Seventy accessions were selected. A total of 34 characters were evaluated from the trees, leaves, flowers, fruits, pulp and seeds from each plant. Morphological characters of acid lime were recorded according to citrus descriptors where qualitative characteristics showed little variation among different acid lime genotypes. However, differences were recorded for quantitative characters. The mean leaf lamina length (89.60 mm) was recorded maximum in JMU-Chet(46) and minimum in JMU-Gura(24). Maximum mean lea

Keywords

Morphology, Acid lime accessions, Diversity, Germplasm, Characterization.