CISH B-3

CISH B-3

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• CISH B-3 variety of bael was developed through the seedling selection of breeding and is a mid maturing variety.
• The variety was maintained with 36 accessions in field gene bank.
• Average fruit weight was recorded 1.15 kg with about 65.64 kg of fruit per tree (5-year-old tree).
• It has thin shell, nearly thorn less variety, pulp is dark yellow colour with pleasant flavour and less mucilage content.
• On an average 81.50 number of seeds were recorded per fruit with average seed weight being 11.15 g.
• Fruit is also having good quality attributes viz. TSS content (38.04°B), acidity (0.44%), total sugars (17.49 %) and has 86.19 % of pulp content.
• This variety is claimed to be tolerant to frost as well as fruit cracking.