Syzigium cumini is one of the important tropical fruit yielding tree species and fruits are used in Ayurvedic medicine. Generally fruit contain only one embryo produced into single seedling, but few fruits produced double seedlings and percentage of such abnormal double seedlings was 8.70. This could be due to double embryos in a single fruit.
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Manuscript Published on 01 June 2012
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