Papaya Biology, Cultivation, Production and Uses

Botany and Improvement 41 Genetic variability with respect to disease resistance in Carica papaya L. is low. In vitro culture te ...

42 Papaya consumers, is even more crucial in developing countries where papaya is already popular. GE papaya does not require ch ...

Botany and Improvement 43 fields have been replaced by the resistant transgenic papaya and because many aban- doned infected fie ...

44 Papaya of the ACC synthase and ACC oxidase genes (Neupane et al. 1998). Investigations to characterise polyphenol oxidase and ...

Botany and Improvement 45 ‘Solo’ in 1919 and by 1936 was the only commercial papaya in the islands. ‘Solo’ produces no male plan ...

46 Papaya were smooth, yellow, rounded-oval, 1.5 kg in weight, thick-fleshed, of excellent flavour and prized for marketing fres ...

Botany and Improvement 47 along the stem down to 45 cm from the ground. Seedlings are 70% females and bloom 3 months after trans ...

48 Papaya Pusa Delicious: It is a selection from progenies of variety ‘Ranchi’, gynodioe- cious, excellent fruit quality, deep o ...

Botany and Improvement 49 CO-6: This is a dioecious variety with dwarf stature, large fruit size, good for papain production and ...

50 Papaya It produces medium to large size fruits (1.0–2.0 kg each) of good quality with high yield potential of 30–35 fruits pe ...

Botany and Improvement 51 The  component characters, namely earliness, fruit yield, fruiting height, single fruit weight and the ...

52 Papaya F 1 Yellow Fellow: This is a prolific heavy yielder with thick yellow fleshed fruits weighing 2.5–3.5 kg. Fruits set a ...

53 3 Climate and Soil 3.1 Temperature Papaya is a tropical plant and very sensitive to frost, limited to the region between 32° ...

54 Papaya responsive to mechanical stimuli and show strong thigmomorphic responses or touch- regulated phenotypes (Porter et al. ...

Climate and Soil 55 necessary for the growth of papaya plants, although dry climate at the time of ripen- ing is good for the fr ...

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57 4 Cultural Practices 4.1 Intercultural Operations Papaya orchards should be free from unwanted plants or weeds for better gro ...

58 Papaya helps the plants to stand erect in sandy loam soils. It is also carried out just after top dressing in the plants on o ...

Cultural Practices 59 4.5 Roguing As soon as the plants start flowering, the extra male plants are uprooted (Figure 4.3). Weaker ...

60 Papaya enclosed in a paper bag or rolled tube of newspaper and tied around the stem. This method can be very practical and su ...