<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>emergentresearch</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Emergent Life Sciences Research</JournalTitle> <PISSN>2395-6658 (</PISSN> <EISSN>) 2395-664X (Print)</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Vol 10, Issue 2, Published on 31</Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>December 2024</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>-0001</Year> <Month>11</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Research Article</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Evaluation of in-situ custard apple (Annona squamosa L.) genotypes in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, India</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>93</FirstPage> <LastPage>102</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Danendra Kumar</FirstName> <LastName>Jain</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>J. L.</FirstName> <LastName>Nag</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Ram Kumar</FirstName> <LastName>Dewangan</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Bhagwat</FirstName> <LastName>Kumar</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Sumit</FirstName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Sumitra</FirstName> <LastName>Poyam</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> <FirstName>Kamesh Kumar</FirstName> <LastName>Shori</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>An experiment was carried out during 2022-23 to study the Physical properties of in-situ custard apple (Annona squamosa L.) genotypes in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, India. The experiment was conducted in five villages and 16 different locations BCA-1is Chitrakote, BCA-2 to BCA-8 are Salpheepadar, BCA-9 to BCA-14 are Arracote, BCA-15 Mareeguda and Madhur (check) are Bakawand. The selected custard apple genotypes are about 8 to 10 year old plants. The results showed the physical properties of in-situ custard apple genotypes under the Bastar district. The variations in Fruit weight per fruit (135.9 to 276.9 g/fruit), Pericarp weight per fruit (60.93 to 146.47 g/fruit), Seeded pulp per fruit (69.80 to 137.13 g/fruit), De-seeded pulp per fruit ( 60.27 to 121.00 g/fruit), Seed weight per fruit (9.53 to 16.40 g/fruit), Number of seed per fruit (21 to 41.87 seed/fruit), Fruit to de-seeded pulp ratio per fruit (2.07-2.42), De-seeded pulp to seed ratio per fruit (5.32 to 7.99), De-deeded pulp recovery percentage per fruit (41.30 to 48.56 %) and peel or pericarp percentage per fruit (44.50 to 52.89 %) of custard apple fruits were observed. After the observation, Madhur (check), BCA-4, BCA-5, and BCA-8 custard apple genotypes were superior in quality traits and could be commercially viable cultivars.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>cultivars, custard apple, genotypes, physical properties, variations</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://emergentresearch.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15524&title=Evaluation of in-situ custard apple (Annona squamosa L.) genotypes in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, India</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>