Growing fruits naturally in the forest have served as food to human being for millennium and will continue to serve, until unless these fruit producing species become extinct because of the pressure of human population. Present paper describes some species and appeals for using them in fruit breeding programs.
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Manuscript Published on 01 June 2013
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