~ 1295 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2020; 9(3): 1295-1299 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 www.phytojournal.com JPP 2020; 9(3): 1295-1299 Received: 20-03-2020 Accepted: 24-04-2020 Mamta Gocher Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, H.N.B Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India Rajendra Gochar CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Canal Road Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India SS Rawat Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, H.N.B Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India DK Rana Department of Horticulture, School of Agriculture and Allied Sciences, H.N.B Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India Corresponding Author: Rajendra Gochar CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Canal Road Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Qualitative and quantities evaluation of Phyllanthus emblica L. fruits under valley condition of Garhwal Himalaya Mamta Gocher, Rajendra Gochar, SS Rawat and DK Rana DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i3u.11488 Abstract Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica L.) locally called as ‘P. emblica’ is one of the important fruit yielding plants utilized in Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine. Nutritional and medicinal properties of P. emblica make it a well-known fruit. It is a richest source of vitamin-C, phytochemicals and minerals. The present study was conducted to evaluate the performance of five different cultivars of P. emblica for qualitative and quantities characteristics under valley at department of horticulture, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal hills Uttarakhand condition. The results revealed that, significant variability was detected among the cultivars for different fruit, seed and biochemical traits. Banarasi cultivar was found superior in term of fruit and pulp weight (22.25 gm), (21.07 gm), pulp thickness (1.32 cm), and pulp: stone ratio (17.07) while NA-7 was maximum in term of diameter (3.29 cm), volume (21.91 ml) and specific gravity (1.21 cc) as compared to other cultivars. The cultivar Chakaiya was found superior compared to other varieties for biochemical characters such as ascorbic acid (643.50 mg/100g) and total sugar (8.37%) content. Keywords: P. emblica, cultivars, quality, ascorbic acid, sugar Introduction Indian gooseberry Phyllanthus emblica L. (syn.-Emblica officinalis Gaertn.), commonly known as ‘P. emblica’ is a deciduous tree of the Phyllanthaceae family, and recognized as one of the important indigenous fruits crop of Indian subcontinent (Sonkar et al., 2020) [34] . P. emblica is known by different names like amla, aonla, emblic, amlika, dhatriphal, amritphal and myrobalan. India has rich diversity of P. emblica germplasm which facilitated the development of several varieties like NA-6, NA-7, NA-9, NA-10, Banarasi, Chakaiya, Francis, Krishna, Kanchan, Anand-1, Anand-2, Anand-3, etc. It has been recognized as an important element of crop diversification due to its wider adaptability under various land use systems and agro-climatic zones (Maholiya et al., 2014; Pathak et al., 2001) [25, 31] . It is well recognized in ‘Vedas’, Ramayana; Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita and other ancient Indian literature describing its fruits to be highly nutritive, nutraceutical and therapeutic values (Kishore et al., 2016) [20] . P. emblica is the second richest source of vitamin C (422-566 mg/100 gm) among fruits after Barbados cherry (Malpighia glabra L.), amino acid, hydrolysable tannins (emblicanin A and B), minerals, and polyphenols which are considered to be responsible for their antioxidative properties (Bhad et al., 2016; Chiranjeevi et al., 2018; Tewari et al., 2019) [5, 8, 35] . P. emblica is a major component of ayurvedic and unani preparations like Triphala and Chavanprash (Kishore, 2017) [19] . Industry as raw material, demand of fresh fruits is increasing worldwide. Besides medicines industry, it has also high demand in small and large scale food industry for preparation of several health-based preserved products like candy, jam, squash, pickle, spray dried P. emblica powder, ready to eat P. emblica chutney, thokku, dried chips and RTS etc., popular in the markets (Deepika and Panja, 2017; Goyal et al., 2008; Pathak et al., 2009) [10, 14, 30] . The fruit is acclaimed for being a use for various ailments including diabetes, inflammation, atherosclerosis, acidity, asthma, skin disorders and corpulence. Indian gooseberry is also reported to possess diuretic, restorative, hair tonic, laxative, anti-pyretic, ulcer preventive, liver tonic, common cold and fever along with it have hypolipidemic, hypoglycemic and antimicrobial activities(Jeevangi et al., 2013; Kumari and Khatkar, 2018) [18, 23] . Pentagalloyl glucose, found in the amla fruit can inhibit Influenza-A virus replication via two mechanisms: prevention of virus adsorption and suppression of virus release (Dasaroju and Gottumukkala, 2014; Gangal et al., 2020) [9, 11] .