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Studies on the Physical Characteristics of Jackfruit

Mofazzal Hossain
Department of Horticulture,Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Azizul Haque
Department of Horticulture,Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

An investigation was carried out at Bangladesh Agricultural University to study the physical characteristics of jack fruits of ten different selected plants. The plants were selected by Haque (3) after making a survey on the types of jack fruit. The fruits of selection No. 1 had the highest weight and maximum number of bulbs. The percentage of non-edible portion was highest in No. 11 type, while it was lowest in No.7. Thus No.7 had one important desirable character of having 75.68 per cent edible portion. Selection No.3 produced maximum number of fruits per plant. Biggest size of fruit was found in selection No.2. Most of the jack fruit had big and medium size bulbs. The selection No.7 seemed to be superior to others when fruit characters like edible portion, size of fruit, number and size of bulb were combined together and compared.

Keywords: Jackfruit, Physical characteristics

Location: Agricultural University Campus and its surrounding villages.

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Program Area: Variety and Species

Commodity: Jackfruit

Objectives:

To make a detailed study on the physical characteristics of jack fruits of ten types fro different selected plants.

Methodology:

Haque (3) made a previous survey on the types of jack fruit in the Agricultural University Campus and its surrounding villages and selected eleven plants producing eleven different types of fruits which were liked most by the people of the respective locality. All the plants except No. 10 from the above study were included in the present experiment. Ten fruits from each of the selected plants of jack fruit were collected at random for the study of physical characteristics. The characteristics such as weight of fruit, rind, axis, bulb, seed, number of fruits per plant, size of fruit, period of availability of fruit, number and size of bulbs of ten different types of jack fruit were studied. Size of the jack fruit were determined as the method used by singh et al. (11) and Jagirdar and Maniyar (4).

Source of Information: Bangladesh Horticulture,5(1):9-13,1977

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Achievement/Findings:

The fruits of selection No. 1 had the highest weight and maximum number of bulbs. The percentage of non-edible portion was highest in No. 11 type, while it was lowest in No.7. Thus No.7 had one important desirable character of having 75.68 per cent edible portion. Selection No.3 produced maximum number of fruits per plant. Biggest size of fruit was found in selection No.2. Most of the jack fruit had big and medium size bulbs. The selection No.7 seemed to be superior to others when fruit characters like edible portion, size of fruit, number and size of bulb were combined together and compared.

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