Santalum album is one of the commercially important species and most popular for its fragrant oil derived from heartwood. Fruit is a drupe having single seed, which is naked and produce single seedling. Here, we report double embryos in a drupe of this species. Perhaps, this could be the first report on Sandal. This is a rare natural phenomenon and such abnormality may be useful for further breeding programme.
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Manuscript Published on 01 March 2010
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