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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5426)	8/2/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Artocarpus heterophyllus -Jack Fruit,largest fruit on a tree. daphne.palomar.edu eddie.mannlib.cornell.edu eddie.mannlib.cornell.edu Attempts to catalogue jackfruit germplasm under way K.V. Peter JACK fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is an underexploited fruit tree indigenous to western ghats. Being cross-pollinated and mostly seed propagated, there exists variability in respect of fruit size, shape, quality and period of maturity. Gulabi (rose scented), Champa (flavour like that of chempak), Hazari (bearing large number of fruits), Rudrakshi (fruits of the size of a large pummelo), Singapore or Ceylon Jack (introduced from Sri Lanka) are the few cultivars. There is also soft fleshed groups ideal for juice extraction and firm fleshed groups for table purpose. Immature fruits and seeds are used as vegetables and also for making delicious pickles. The Regional Centre of National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources at Vellanikkara, Kerala, has collected Varikka, Koozha, Navarikka (Pazham varikka) forms of jack fruit available in Kerata, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Attempts are on to describe, catalogue and maintain this very valuable tree germplasm. Dr. A.M. Nanjundaswamy, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, reported that jack fruit comprised edible bulbs (28.7 per cent), seeds (11.5 per cent) and rind, core and sheath covering seeds (59.8 per cent) which go as biowaste. Mr. Bhatia B.S., University of Punjab, studied the possibility of producing canned segments in syrup, beverages, fruit slab and frozen segments. Good quality papad was prepared from partially ripened jack fruit bulbs. Mr. Bhatia could store the papad for four to six months at room temperature (24 to 30'C) after wrapping in a paper. Dehydrated jack-fruit bulbs is another value-added product. The jack seeds are rich sources of carbohydrates (78.3 per cent), protein (12.4 per cent) and calcium (379.5 mg/100 g). According to Drs. Siddappa G.S. and Bhatia B.S., CFTRI, Mysore, chapatis made from wheatflour containing up to 25 per cent jack seed flour are quite acceptable. Jack fruit leaves are delicious forage to goats, its timber ideal for furniture/house building, and the whole tree aptly suited as live standards for black pepper - the King of Spices. Jack fruit grows wild in the forests of western and eastern ghats. The districts of Gorakhpur, Dewaria, Faizabad and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh have sizeable variability in jack fruit. Assam is a major producer of this fruit. The pectin content (as per cent calcium pectate) was 3.21 to 5.81 in bulb, 1.02 to 2.66 in aborted flower (fleshy ribbon like structure), 3.06 to 4.60 in seed, 2.86 to 3.64 in rind and 1.95 to 2.23 in core, according to Dr. Viuschandran, now with National Agriculture Bank for Rural Development, Thiruvananthapuram. (The author is Director, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode)(Source:The Hindu BusinessLine)