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PJB-2008-66

VARIATION WITHIN KINNOW (CITRUS RETICULATA) AND ROUGH LEMON (CITRUS JAMBHERI)

NAFEES ALTAF* AND ABDUL REHMAN KHAN
Abstract

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Citrus is number one in area and production of fruits in Pakistan. Punjab is the major Citrus fruit producing province. Kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulata) is the dominant scion variety grafted on locally well adapted rootstock rough lemon (C. jambheri). The seed embryos from randomly collected fruits from all over Punjab province were studied in invitro culture and 24 different embryo seedlings shapes were found. In another experiment 10534 seeds from randomly collected fruits were cultured, among which 65% were found to be mono embryonic

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