Abstract
Underutilized fruits are neither grown commercially nor traded and are lesser known fruits in terms of volume and marketing. These fruits are having high nutritive values as good source of vitamins and minerals, yet these have not been exploited to their full potential. There is a need to document and popularize these crops in order to protect their cultural traditions and facilitate research programmes. In the recent years, these crops are found to be near extinction due to urbanization and market pressures. Hence, complementary conservation strategies of both in situ and ex situ are proposed. Sustainable domestication might be a possible way to safeguard these crops via standardization of cultivation practices and planting material production, creating awareness among the consumers and establishing a marketing network.
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Sakthivel, T., Senthil Kumar, R., Bonath, S. (2019). Management and Conservation of Underutilized Fruits. In: Rajasekharan, P., Rao, V. (eds) Conservation and Utilization of Horticultural Genetic Resources. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3669-0_13
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