Evaluation of Aonla (Emblica officnalis Gaertn.) Genotypes of Morphological, Growth and Fruit Attributes under Semi -arid Conditions of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract
The present study was conducted to evaluate of Aonla (Emblica officnalis Gaertn.) genotypes for tree, foliage, fruit, and maturity attributes under semi-arid conditions during the years 2024-25. Among the genotypes, growth habit was observed as spreading, upright, and drooping. Leaf retention was observed as deciduous and semi-deciduous. Plant height, plant spread (N-S) and (E-W). Among the genotypes varied from 5.83m (Chakaiya) to 7.62m (G1), 6.58m (CHES1) to 9.48m (G1) and 6.41m (NA7) to 9.49m (G1), respectively. The foliage was visualized as dense and sparse among all the genotypes. Oblong, elliptical, and oval-shaped leaves were present in different genotypes. Young shoots have green to light green colour, and they have varied strength at maturity (weak, intermediate, and strong). There was substantial variation with respect to different fruit attributes viz., fruit shape (oval, round, flattened round); fruit apex (flat, papillate, depressed), fruit base cavity (Shallow, flat, absent), segment ridges (absent, prominent, less prominent), fruit colour (yellow green, light green, light green with red tinge), time taken from fruit setting to fruit maturity recorded in minimum 216 (Krishna) and maximum 256 (BSR 1). Genotypes were categorized in three groups according to their maturity period, i.e., early (Krishna and NA 10); mid-season (CHES 1, NA 6, NA 7, NA 20, NA25, NA26, NA27, G 1 and Seedling 2) and late season (Seedling 1, Chakaiya and BSR 1).