Papaya Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses

1 1 Introduction and Uses 1.1 Origin and History Papaya (Carica papaya L.), belonging to the family Caricaceae, is one of the mo ...

2 Papaya papaya production has grown significantly over the last few years, mainly as a result of increased production in India. ...

Introduction and Uses 3 FIGURE 1.2 (See colour insert. ) Major papaya growing countries. (From Encyclopaedia of Life (EOL), 2015 ...

4 Papaya papaya growing states of India are Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Ben ...

Introduction and Uses 5 et  al. 2002). The agro-climatic conditions, cultivation practices, climate, seasons, site and cultivars ...

6 Papaya crude protein content ranges from 3.74 to 8.26 g/100 g dry matter, and aspartic acid is the most abundant amino acid in ...

Introduction and Uses 7 of constituents in ripe papaya fruit and current mature leaves are given in Table 1.1. The edible portio ...

8 Papaya papaya puree and consumed either alone or with other fruit juices such as passion fruit juice and pineapple juice (Brek ...

Introduction and Uses 9 1.3.3 Flower and Stem Sprays of male flowers are sold in Asian and Indonesian markets and in New Guinea ...

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11 2 Botany and Improvement 2.1 Plant Morphology The papaya plant is a semi-woody, latex-producing, usually single-stemmed, shor ...

12 Papaya and branches, long petioles; widely evident, 40–60 cm diameter (Ming et al. 2008), smooth, moderately palm shape with ...

Botany and Improvement 13 meaning that separate plants bear either male, female or bisexual flowers. The female and bisexual flo ...

14 Papaya However, papaya seeds have been grouped as recalcitrant type by Chin et al. (1984) and Hofmann and Steiner (1989). Pro ...

Botany and Improvement 15 Female flowers are much larger than male flowers, around 4.0–5.0 cm long, and are more or less sessile ...

16 Papaya B Pistillate ♀ : Borne on a raceme, corymb, sub-sessile, bracteolate Calyx : Petals 5, gamosepalous, light green Corol ...

Botany and Improvement 17 Nakasone 1967; Storey 1969; Allan et al. 1987). Floral induction is also correlated with number of lea ...

18 Papaya leaves considerable space between the stigmatic rays and the anthers. The anthers may be 5.0–8.0 mm below the stigma. ...

Botany and Improvement 19 one set of flowers on a pistillate tree was bagged before anthesis and another set was pollinated befo ...

20 Papaya longitudinal strips that change from white to yellow when it ripens. It is harder than C. candamarcensis and the fruit ...