Origin of mango (Mangifera indica).
Mukherjee S. K.
Author Affiliation: Indian Bot. Gdn., Calcutta.
Economic Botany 26 : 260-264
Abstract : The geographical distribution of Mangifera species indicates that Malaya is the centre of origin of the genus, but fossil records of M. pentandra in Assam and of M. duperreans and M. lagenifera in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam indicate that it may have arisen in these places. Commercial cultivars of mango appear to have originated predominantly in India. Suitable environments have resulted in wider diversity in seedling progeny with improved types as in Florida, where such cultivars as Haden have larger and more attractive fruits than the dull-coloured parent Mulgoa. The predominance of nucellar lines in Malaysia and the Philippines may be a result of genotype X environment reaction.