Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
Chandrakant Awachare, G Karunakaran, M Madhavi, T Sakthivel, KS Shivashankara, NV Singh, Pinky Raigond, Shilpa P and BM Muralidhara

Abstract:
The important biochemical traits were analyzed from pulp of 72 accessions was analyzed and recorded wide variability among the accessions. The accession, CHES-PA-X-2 had the highest dry matter content of 34.40 percent followed by CHES-PA-VIII-11 (33.30%) and CHES-PA-VIII-13 (30.24%), the lowest dry matter content was noted in CHES-PA-VIII-10 (15.00%). The fat content in fresh pulp among 72 accessions was ranged between 6.36 to 18.73 percent. The accession, CHES-PA-III-2 recorded the maximum fat content followed by CHES-PA-X-2 (16.37%), CHES-PA-X-5 (13.56%), CHES-PA-X-6 (13.11%) and CHES-PA-XIII-8 (12.45%), while the highest phenolic content was noted in CHES-PA-IV-11 (103.24 mg GAE/100 g). The moisture content had strong significant and negative correlation with fat content (-0.081) while positive correlation with phenol content (0.030). The dry matter content of pulp showed highly positive correlation for fat content (0.278) carotenoids content (0.122). The fat content expressed positive correlation with dry matter content of pulp (0.211) and negative correlation with moisture content (-0.121). The distinct avocado accessions exhibiting important horticultural traits such as fruit size, shape, pulp quality, peel colour, peel thickness etc. could be important in selecting the superior accessions.