DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN COFFEE VARIETIES
Germplasm The success of any breeding programme depends on the proper evaluation and exploitation of the available gene pool. Hence, a massive gene bank was established at CCRI with collections…
Germplasm The success of any breeding programme depends on the proper evaluation and exploitation of the available gene pool. Hence, a massive gene bank was established at CCRI with collections…
Beans/seeds Seeds are elliptical or egg shaped, plano convex processing longitudinal furrow on the plane surface. Seed coat is represented by the ‘silver skin’ which is also made up of…
Pollination Pollination takes place within 6h of the flower opening, under bright light and warm windy conditions. Rain, during morning hours, before or after flower opening, affects pollination and thereby…
Leaves Coffee leaves grow in opposite decussate manner on the main stem and orthotropic shoots (growing along the vertical axis). But, in plagiotropic branches (the longer axis inclined away from…
Coffee is a perennial plant (lives for many years) and evergreen (plants that so not shed their leaves during the specific season) in nature.it has a prominent vertical stem giving…