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The need for evolving citrus rootstocks which are highly compatible with different scions, high yielding with good quality fruits and resistant to diseases, particularly Phytophthora root rot, has been widely stressed(Koltz and De Wolfe, 1958; Cameron and Frost, 1968; Prasad and Rao, 1983 and Rao and Prasad, 1983). Rangpur lime(Citrus limonia Osbeck.) and Rough lemon(Citrus jambhiri Lush.) possess the most desirable traits for a rootstock and are widely used(Cohen, 1970; Passos and Sabrinho,1981; Agarwal, 1982 and Holtzhausen et al.,1988), but are highly suscep-tible to Phytophthora root rot(Carpenter and Furr,1982; Prasad and Rao, 1983). Trifoliate orange(Poncirus trifoliata(L,) Ref.,) though resistant to Phytophthora (Rao and Prasad,1983 and Spiegel-Roy,1988), is incompatible with many citrus cultivars(Ashkenazi,1988). Trifoliate orange has a generous donor of valuable genes, particularly the resistance to Phytophthora(Cameron and Frost,l968; Prasad and Rao,1983 and Spiegel-Roy,1988), and combines well with Rangpur lime and Rough lemon. Hence, it is imperative to impart Phytophthora resistance of Trifoliate orange to Rangpur lime and Rough lemon.
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Prasad, M.B.N.V., Agarwal, P.K., Sawant, S.D., Rekha, A. (1991). Role of germplasm in Citrus rootstock improvement. In: Prakash, J., Pierik, R.L.M. (eds) Horticulture — New Technologies and Applications. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3176-6_13
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