Morphologial and Anatomical Studies of Tea Varieties and Clones Grown at Nthri, Shinkiari, Mansehra, Pakistan
Morphologial and Anatomical Studies of Tea Varieties and Clones Grown at Nthri, Shinkiari, Mansehra, Pakistan
Danish Kamal2, Muhammad Abbass Khan1, Ghulam Mujtaba-Shah1, Naveed Ahmed1, Maryam Iqbal¹, Basharat Hussain Shah1 and Imtiaz Ahmed1*
ABSTRACT
The primary knowledge gap and problem statement for all tea varieties and clones in my study field relate to their morphological and anatomical features. Tea belongs to family Theaceae and Camellaceace. The experiment was carried out for the morphological, anatomical studies of tea varieties and clones grown at National Tea and High Value Crops Research Institute, Shinkari Mansehra. The field experiments were conduct in Randomized Complete Block Design. Morphological and anatomical character of different tea varieties and clone were analyzed by standard techniques. Morphological character of various tea varieties and clones were record both qualitative and quantitative data such as stem colour stem, stem length, stem girth, number of leaves plant-1 leaf length, leaf width, leaf type, leaf apex, leaf base, leaf shape, distance between nodes, pedicel length, flower colour, and flower diameter. Tea samples were analyzed for anatomical parameters such as epidermis cells, mesophyll cells and epidermal anatomy of leaves. The stem length, stem girth, number of leaves plant-1, leaf width, leaf length, distance between node, pedicel length and flower in tea samples ranged between 9.66-71.80cm, 1.40-2.54cm, 7.66-15.66cm, 4.83-1.66cm, 11.50 3.86cm 4.76-1.50cm, 2.03-1.06 and 4.56- 2.66cm. In anatomical study transverse section of tea varieties and clone showed similar features in epidermis, mesophyll tissues and vascular bundles. Stomatal index of different tea varieties and clones was array from 33.9 to 45.4 respectively. Highest was mentioned in clone P-7 because high number of stomata found in lower epidermis.
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