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Underutilized Fruit Crops of Indian Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: Importance, Conservation and Utilization Strategies

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Title Underutilized Fruit Crops of Indian Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: Importance, Conservation and Utilization Strategies
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Creator Vijay Singh Meena
Jagan Singh Gora
Akath Singh
Chet Ram
Nirmal Kumar Meena
Pratibha
Youssef Rouphael
Boris Basile
Pradeep Kumar
 
Subject climate resilient
arid zone fruits
adaptation
nutritional quality
 
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Nowadays, there is a large demand for nutrient-dense fruits to promote nutritional and
metabolic human health. The production of commercial fruit crops is becoming progressively
input-dependent to cope with the losses caused by biotic and abiotic stresses. A wide variety of
underutilized crops, which are neither commercially cultivated nor traded on a large scale, are mainly
grown, commercialized and consumed locally. These underutilized fruits have many advantages in
terms of ease to grow, hardiness and resilience to climate changes compared to the major commercially
grown crops. In addition, they are exceptionally rich in important phytochemicals and have medicinal
value. Hence, their consumption may help to meet the nutritional needs of rural populations, such
as those living in fragile arid and semi-arid regions around the world. In addition, local people are
well aware of the nutritional and medicinal properties of these crops. Therefore, emphasis must
be given to the rigorous study of the conservation and the nutritional characterization of these
crops so that the future food basket may be widened for enhancing its functional and nutritional
values. In this review, we described the ethnobotany, medicinal and nutritional values, biodiversity
conservation and utilization strategies of 19 climate-resilient important, underutilized fruit crops of
arid and semi-arid regions (Indian jujube, Indian gooseberry, lasora, bael, kair, karonda, tamarind,
wood apple, custard apple, jamun, jharber, mahua, pilu, khejri, mulberry, chironji, manila tamarind,
timroo, khirni).
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Date 2023-04-07T08:23:01Z
2023-04-07T08:23:01Z
2022-02-18
 
Type Review Paper
 
Identifier Meena, V.S.; Gora, J.S.; Singh, A.; Ram, C.; Meena, N.K.; P.; Rouphael, Y.; Basile, B.; Kumar, P. Underutilized Fruit Crops of Indian Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: Importance, Conservation and Utilization Strategies. Horticulturae 2022, 8, 171. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/horticulturae8020171
2311-7524
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/76766
 
Language English
 
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Publisher MDPI Basel, Switzerland