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Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors
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: Received: 1 March 2024 / Approved: 4 March 2024 / Online: 4 March 2024 (10:57:55 CET)
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Rajora, O.P.; Parveen, A.B.M.; Dasgupta, M.G. Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors. Preprints2024, 2024030146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0146.v1
Rajora, O.P.; Parveen, A.B.M.; Dasgupta, M.G. Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors. Preprints 2024, 2024030146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0146.v1
Rajora, O.P.; Parveen, A.B.M.; Dasgupta, M.G. Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors. Preprints2024, 2024030146. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0146.v1
APA Style
Rajora, O.P., Parveen, A.B.M., & Dasgupta, M.G. (2024). Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0146.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Rajora, O.P., Abdul Bari Muneera Parveen and Modhumita Ghosh Dasgupta. 2024 "Provenance Variation in Seed and Fruit Pod Traits of Multipurpose Wonder Forest Tree Siris (Albizzia lebbek) in Northern India and Relationships with Bioclimatic Factors" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.0146.v1
Abstract
Understanding morphological and genetic diversity of forest trees is essential to facilitate their conservation, sustainable management and genetic improvement for addressing the economic and environmental demands and challenges. We have examined variation in morphometric seed and pod traits and seed germination of multipurpose and widely distributed forest tree Albizia lebbek (Indian siris) from 12 provenances covering the species’ range in northern India and its relationships with bioclimatic factors. Highly significant inter-provenance variation was observed in seed size (seed length (SL), seed width (SW), SW/SL, SL×SW), seed mass (1000 seed weight), pod size (pod length (PL), pod width (PW), PW/PL), seed germination, number of seeds per pod, and insect infected seeds (IIS). The provenance effect contributed a major portion to the total phenotypic variance. Morphometric variation in all traits except for IIS was not clinal related to longitude, latitude, altitude or rainfall. There was an indication of the presence of ecotypic variation. IIS showed clinal variation with significant negative correlation with latitude. Most seed size and pod size traits showed positive correlations with several temperature bioclimatic factors and negative correlations with several precipitation bioclimatic factors. Our results have significance for genetic improvement, population genetics and genomics studies and conservation and sustainable management of A. lebbek genetic resources.
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