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PALYNOLOGICAL STUDIES IN GUAVA AND ITS RELATED SPECIES

Volume : 76
Issue: Dec-dec
Pages: 671 - 675
Published: September 22, 2023
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Abstract


The pollen grains of guava and its relatives are triangular, oval and round in shape with size varying from 15.6 u to 25.2 μ and 14.7 to 21.1 in acetocarmine media for Safeda and Seedless respectively. The minimum and maximum size of pollen grains were 12.6 to 16.8 in Psidium polycarpum and 16.8 μ 48.3 in P.molle. The - maximum percentage of fertility was recorded in P.polycarpum (98.85%) and the miminum in P.cattleianum (18.64%) respectively. The pollen grains of all the species could be stored well up to 210 days in shallow pan (refrigerator) at 15 2°C for prolonging the storage life of the pollen in Psidium species. The pollen has lost its viability with- in 30 days at room temperature.

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671 - 675
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Guava Palynological studies Pollen.
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