EFFECT OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF PODS AND SEEDS OF PARKIA TIMORIANA (DC.) MERR ON PROTIEN CONTENTS OF SEEDS

Abstract

Ten samples of mature entire pods of Parkia timoriana were analyzed for certain physico - chemical characters. In the study, parameters for each of the physical characters such as length and breadth of pod and seed, number of seeds per pod, seed thickness and dry matter weight per seed were noted to vary significantly (p<0.05) in majority of the cases. In majority, dry matters of decorticated seeds of such samples possessed variable levels for either of crude proteins or true proteins, the values being 16.11 - 28.25% and 14.77 - 27.25% respectively. It was observed that none of the samples excelled the others in all characters and moreover, no case of inter sample similarity of characters was recorded.