Fruit crops with their propagation methods:
- Grape — Hardwood cutting
- Pomegranate — Hardwood cutting, Air layering
- Tea — Softwood cutting, Leaf node cutting
- Lemon — Air layering, Seed
- Litchi — Air layering
- Avocado — Air layering
- Cherry — Air layering
- Guava — Stooling
- Banana — Sword sucker
- Date palm — Offshoot (sucker)
- Pineapple — Suckers, slips
- Strawberry — Runners
- Almond — T-budding
- Aonla — T-budding / Patch budding
- Bael — Patch budding
- Ber — Ring & T-budding
- Custard apple — T-budding
- Grapefruit — T-budding
- Jamun — Shield & Patch budding
- Mandarin — T-budding
- Sweet orange — T-budding
- Peach — T-budding
- Plum — T-budding
- Olive — T-budding
- Peanut — Patch budding
- Rubber — Forket budding
- Apple — Tongue grafting
- Pear — Tongue grafting
- Apricot — Tongue grafting
- Cashewnut — Softwood grafting
- Jackfruit — Inarching
- Loquat — Inarching
- Sapota — Inarching
- Mango — Veneer grafting
- Persimmon — Crown grafting
Pollination Modes of Major Fruit Crops
Pollination Type | Fruit Crops |
Insect (Entomophilous) | Citrus, Apple, Guava, Ber, Annona, Cherry, Mango, Almond, Peach, Sapota, Papaya, Pomegranate, Plum |
Wind (Anemophilous) | Coconut, Cashewnut, Pear, Date Palm, Chestnut, Oil Palm, Fig (wasp-pollinated) |
Bird (Ornithophilous) | Mango (pollinated by House Fly also), Litchi, Jackfruit, Pomegranate |
Edible parts of important fruit crops based on your data:
Edible Part | Fruit Crops (Examples) |
1. Mesocarp | Aonla, Olive, Quince, Peach, Persimon, Phalsa, Cherry, Plum, Jamun |
2. Pericarp | Custard apple, Passion fruit, Grape, Guava, Citrus |
3. Endocarp | Apricot, Avocado, Thalamus, Pear, Banana, Ber, Loquat, Date palm, Strawberry |
4. Cotyledon | Peanut, Cashew, Almond, Pistachio, Tamarind, Sapota, Mango, Mulberry |
5. Endosperm | Coconut |
6. Fleshy | Apple, Pear |
7. Succulent placenta | Bael, Karonda |
8. Fleshy receptacle | Fig |
9. Succulent placentae | Wood apple |
10. Fleshy peduncle | Cashew apple |
11. Juicy placental hairs | Citrus |
12. Juicy seed coat | Pomegranate |
13. Thalamus & Pericarp | Guava |
14. Bracts/Perianth | Jackfruit, Pineapple |
15. Fleshy aril | Litchi |
Inflorescence Types of Major Fruit Crops:
Inflorescence Type | Fruit Crops Examples |
Solitary | Cherry, Peach, Black Cherry, Pear, Sapota, Apricot, Gooseberry, Citrus |
Racemose | Almond (Raceme), Fig, Coconut, Date palm, Pomegranate |
Cymose | Almond (Corymb), Custard apple (Panicle), Raspberry, Strawberry, Guava, Grapes, Banana |
Spadix | Coconut, Arecanut, Banana |
Hypanthodium | Fig |
