Research Article | Published: 01 March 2013

Effect of Different Light on Pollen Germination, Tube Growth, Fruit Set and Fruit size in Alkaloid Yielding Plant Solanum Torvum Sw.

S. R. Katiyar

Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products | Volume: 20 | Issue: 1 | Page No. 67-72 | 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2013-DUN06S | Cite this article

Abstract

The present study showed the improvement of S. torvum plant through the effect of different light on pollen germination, pollen tube growth, fruit set, fruit size and fresh weight of ripened fruits. The pollen grains of S. torvum were germinated on a basal medium and study the effect of blue, green, white, yellow and red light under in–vitro condition. Percent of pollen germination and tube growth were lesser in the dark condition than the white light but maximum by the red light in 4 and 5 hrs incubation.  Based on pollen germination and tube growth variability in-vitro from different light. Hundred long-styled flowers (before anthesis) were chosen randomly for each colour and after hand pollination obtained the per cent of fruit set, size and weight of ripened fruit was lesser in the dark as compared to other lights and aforementioned these values were maximum under the red light. Thus, the present work   emphasised that the red light should be used for the improvement of fruit size in S. torvum.

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Katiyar, S.R., 2013. Effect of Different Light on Pollen Germination, Tube Growth, Fruit Set and Fruit size in Alkaloid Yielding Plant Solanum Torvum Sw.. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 20(1), pp.67-72. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2013-DUN06S

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