Pod and seed characteristics of Vachellia nilotica ssp. indica (Benth.) Kyal. & Boatwr., a full grown tree growing in Nauraja, Kacche Jo Ilaiqo (floodplain of River Indus, Sindh), were studied which included pod-, seed- and brood-size and seed packaging cost and their variations. In a sample of 130 pods, the pod weight varied from 1.304 to 5.667g averaging to 3.789 ± 0.0685g and followed a normal distribution. The brood size averaged to 11.208 ± 0.1694 seeds per pod varying from 5 to 15 per pod (CV: 17.24%). The amount of seeds recovered from the pods varied from 0.5948g per pod to 2.3864g per pod (CV: 19.5%). The mean individual seed weight in a sample of 1411seeds averaged to 143.51 ± 0.751mg and varied from 3.40 to 205.30 mg (CV: 19.65%). The distribution was found to be non-normal and substantially negatively skewed and leptokurtic. The seed packaging cost on the basis of per seed (SPC1) averaged to 0.1986 ± 0.0058g per seed whereas seed packaging cost on the basis of per g seeds (SPC2) averaged to 1.4464 ± 0.0898g per g seeds. Both SPC1 and SPC2 deviated significantly from the normal distribution. The results were discussed in context of the available ecological literature.
D. Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Sahito, . (2018) VARIATION IN POD-, BROOD- AND SEED-SIZES AND SEED PACKAGING COST IN VACHELLIA NILOTICA SSP. INDICA (BENTH.) KYAL. & BOATWR. FROM NAURAJA, KACCHE JO ILAIQO, SINDH, PAKISTAN, , Volume 15, Issue 3.
