Studies on Morphological Traits of Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) Germplasm under tarai Conditions of Uttarakhand

The present investigation was conducted to study the morphological traits of Jackfruit germplasm under tarai conditions of Uttarakhand in plot No. 6 of HRC, Patharchatta, GBPUA&T, Pantnagar, U.S. Nagar (Uttarakhand) from November, 2015 to July, 2016. The germplasms were planted in four rows. The experiment was conducted in Randomized Block Design with ten treatments and three replications consisted of ten germplasm viz., Jackfruit Germplasm-1, Jackfruit Germplasm-2, Jackfruit Germplasm-3, Jackfruit Germplasm-4, Jackfruit Germplasm-5, Jackfruit Germplasm-6, Jackfruit Germplasm-7, Jackfruit Germplasm-8, Jackfruit Germplasm-9 and Jackfruit Germplasm-10. The results showed regarding the morphological characters Jackfruit Germplasm-6 and Jackfruit Germplasm-8 are found to be short stature, having spreading habit. On the basis of above study, it can be concluded that there was significant variation in morphological character of various germplasm of Jackfruit. Among the various germplasm; Jackfruit Germplasm-6 and Jackfruit Germplasm-8 in dwarfness, spreading and yield found to be superior.