Variability studies of tree and floral characters in clones of dashehari mango in different locations of Himachal Pradesh Kumar Amit, Sharma S.D. Department of Fruit Breeding & Genetic Resources, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni-Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173 230 Online published on 5 April, 2012. Abstract The present studies were conducted in the Department of Fruit Breeding and Genetic Resources, Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni-Solan, Himachal Pradesh. There was significant variation for tree and floral characters among these 257 mango trees of cultivar Dashehari growing in three different locations. Plant height varied between 2.15 to 10.05 m, trunk girth 46.60 to 85.10 cm, plant spread 2.45 to 12.18 m2, fruit drop 50.59 to 70.96 per cent, cumulative number of fruits per plant 249.0 to 871.0, cumulative yield from 44.80 to 153.20 kg per tree, yield efficiency 0.1073 to 0.3613, number of panicles per branch 9.0 to 14.50, size of panicle from 13.43 to 26.32 cm2, number of flowers per panicle from 880.17 to 1548.17, hermaphrodite flowers from 31.25 to 32.84 per cent, male flowers from 66.97 to 68.66 per cent and sex ratio 2.05 to 2.20. The coefficient of variation for these characters varied from 0.30 to 42.53 per cent. Top |