Mango breeding - selection from monoembryonic progenies.
Ou ShyiKuang, Song ChiaWei
Author Affiliation: Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taiwan.
Special Publication - Taichung District Agricultural Improvement Station : 103-106
Abstract : It is difficult to improve mango [Mangifera indica] cultivars by artificial crossing because inflorescences consist of an abundance of small flowers with low fertility and fruit set. Introducing monoembryonic cultivars in mixed plantings with native polyembryonic cultivars for open pollination, and subsequent selection of progenies from the monoembryonic cultivars resulted in 1062 progenies in 1983 and 1318 open pollinated progenies in 1996. Fruit size of 9 selections ranged from 111 to 386 g, and the soluble solids varied from 13.1 to 21.4 °Brix.