Epicuticular wax and lenticel changes during development of mango fruit cv. dashehari

Epicuticular wax accumulation and changes in lenticel number on the peel were estimated in Dashehari mango truit during growth and development. There was a steady increase in epicuticular wax per unit area from 30 days to 70 days after fruit set. Its accumulation per fruit increased with weight and surface area attaining 12.1 mg per fruit at 90 days. Lenticels per unit area were two and three folds higher in the apical region than in the middle and shoulder regions of the fruit at all stages of growth. The lenticels apparently manifested fully upto 60 days after fruit set with an average of 3167 per fruit and remained unaltered thereafter.