Malabar Neem

Twenty Candidate Plus Trees (CPTs) of Melia dubia were selected from different places covering Valsad, Narmada and The Dangs districts of South Gujarat region of India. Selection was made through individual selection method by considering qualitative and quantitative traits of economic interest like stem straightness, roundness, tree height, and clear bole height, girth at breast height and disease resistance. The selected candidate plus trees will be useful in development of superior quality planting material for mass propagation and future tree improvement programmes.

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Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench) is an important vegetable crop and Melia composita (Malabar Neem or Nimabaro) is emerging industrial agroforestry plantations in southern Gujarat. To maximize the land utilization an agroforestry trial was laid to investigate the performance of okra varieties under different spatial arrangements of 2 year old Melia composita plantation...

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Malabar neem (Melia dubia), which is locally known as “Malaivembu”. The tree is found in forest plantations in India and is a fast growing tree crop with up to 20 m height. It produces greater bio-mass in relatively shorter period. The present study was carried out to evaluate commercially available fungicides and biofungicides in-vitro, for their efficacy against foliar and soil borne pathogens. Firstly five promising fungicides and four biocontrol agents were evaluated against fungal pathogens under laboratory conditions.

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