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 |
