Miscellaneous Points Related to Vegetable

Sex Forms in Vegetables

Sex Forms in Cucurbits

Pollination Types

Fruit Types in Vegetables

Inflorescence Types

Onion Color Compounds

• Red Onion: Anthocyanin
• Yellow Onion: Quercetin

Nutritional & Disease Information

• Sweet Potato: Cheapest source of calories
• Tapioca: Highest carbohydrate content
• Agathi: High calcium
• Vegetables: Almost no fat (0.1%)
• Mature seeds of Pea & Bean: Contain Phytic acid
• Colletotrichum & Purple Blotch: More severe in Kharif Onion
• Rabi Onion: Prone to blight
• Nematode (Ditylenchus): Common in Onion & Garlic

Micronutrient Effects in Crops

Genetic Information

• Inbreeding Depression:
  • High: Carrot
  • Moderate: Onion, Cole crops
  • Nil: Tomato, Brinjal

Ist Hybrids:

• • Cucumber: Japan (1940)
  • IARI Vegetables: Pusa Meghdoot, Pusa Manjari (1971)
  • Tomato Hybrid: Karnataka
  • Sweet Pepper Hybrid: Bharat

Carrot Types

Miscellaneous Important Points

• Savoy Cabbage: B.O. var. sabauda (Conical shape)
• Savoy Varieties: Perfection, Chieftain, Wakefield, Charlatan, Jercey
• Trap Crop: Bold mustard (25:1) in cabbage – prevents red pumpkin beetle
• Spinach: Has 5 different sex forms
• Thinning: Compulsory in Beetroot & Turnip
• Tomato for Juice: Pusa Ruby, Angur Lata, Kalinpur
• Processing Tomato: Arka Saurabh
• Seedless Watermelon: Pusa Bedana (Dr. Kihara, 1972)
• Tomato Interspecific Hybrid:
  • Hissar Anmol: Hissar Arun × L. hirsutum
  • Pusa Red Plum: L. esculentum × L. pimpillifolium

Floriculture & ICAR Programs

• 1970: Separate division of Floriculture and Vegetable Crops (IARI)
• 1971: AICVIP launched by ICAR

Important Flower Colors