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Pearl production in relation to the graft tissue in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata (Gould)

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Title Pearl production in relation to the graft tissue in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata (Gould)
 
Creator Velayudhan, T S
Victor, A C C
Dharmaraj, S
Chellam, A
 
Subject Pearl oyster
 
Description This reports the results of study on which region of the mantle gives good quality pearls and also higher production rate. The mantle tissue from 4 areas namely anterior (a),posterior (b), middle (c), and central (d)regions were used. This study showed that the middle region of mantle when used as graft tissue resulted in not only high percentage of pearl formation (50.28%) but also, the marketable pearls (A, B and C - groups) accounted for 77.53% of the total pearls produced.
 
Publisher CMFRI, COCHIN
 
Date 1993
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4284/1/Article_04.pdf
Velayudhan, T S and Victor, A C C and Dharmaraj, S and Chellam, A (1993) Pearl production in relation to the graft tissue in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata (Gould). Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 119. pp. 3-4.