Morphological Characterization, Quality, Yield & DNA Fingerprinting of Energy Treated Alphonso Mango

What is it about?

Alphonso is the most delicious variety of mango (Mangifera indica L.) known for its excellent texture, taste, and richness with vitamins and minerals. The present study was attempted to evaluate the impact of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment on morphological characteristics, quality, yield and molecular assessment of mango. A plot of 16 acres lands used for this study with already grown mango trees. This plot was divided into two parts. One part was considered as control, while another part was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment without physically touching and referred as treated. The treated mango trees showed new straight leaves, without any distortion and infection, whereas the control trees showed very few, distorted, infected, and curly leaves. Moreover, the flowering pattern of control trees did not alter; it was on average 8 to 10 inches with more male flowers. However, the flowering pattern of treated trees was completely transformed into compact one being 4 to 5 inches in length and having more female flowers. Additionally, the weight of matured ripened mango was found on an average 275 gm, medium sized with 50% lesser pulp in the control fruits, while the fruits of biofield energy treated trees showed on average weight of 400 gm, large sized and having 75% higher pulp as compared to the control. Apart from morphology, the quality and nutritional components of mango fruits such as acidity content was increased by 65.63% in the treated sample. Vitamin C content in the treated Alphonso mango pulp was 43.75% higher than the pulp obtained from the control mango farm. The spongy tissue content in pulp of the matured ripened mangoes was decreased by 100% for two consecutive years as compared to the control. Moreover, the yield of flowers and fruits in the treated trees were increased about 95.45 and 47.37%, respectively as compared to the control. Besides, the DNA fingerprinting data using RAPD revealed that the treated sample did not show any true polymorphism as compared to the control. The overall results envisaged that the biofield energy treatment on the mango trees showed a significant improvement in the morphology, quality and overall productivity along with 100% reduction in the spongy tissue disorder. In conclusion, the biofield energy treatment could be used as an alternative way to increase the production of quality mangoes.

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Why is it important?

Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is the most popular tropical fruits in the Universe that belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae. It is known as the king of fruits. It is one of the most important fruit marketed in the world with global production exceeding 26 million tons in 2004 [1]. Mangoes are rich source of prebiotic dietary fibers, folate, and vitamins such as A, C, B6, and B9, as per the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrient database. Among all the tropical fruits production, mangoes ranked as first position in the world. India is the first largest country for the production of mangoes in the world [2]. The mango fruits also contains various antioxidants, vitamins, phytonutrients, carotenoids, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, polyphenols, amino acids, and dietary minerals such as potassium and copper. Owing to these properties, several literatures reported their effectiveness in the inhibition of prostate and skin cancer [3-5]. It also protects serum oxidative stress in senile people due to its antioxidant properties [6]. Antiproliferative activity of mangoes inter and intra fruits (peel and flesh) has been reported on breast cancer cell line [7]. Banerjee et al. reported that due to presence of polyphenolics component it suppressed tumor growth in breast cancer xenografts in the mice model [8]. From the literature, it was found that mango extracts can prevent or arrest certain colon and breast cancer cells in vitro model [9]. The extract of M. indica has been reported for antiviral, antibacterial, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and immuno-modulatory activities [10]. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasing in biomedical health care sector. Among the alternative medicine, biofield therapies have claimed to modulate an individual’s energy field for healing and wellbeing [11]. Any living body possesses some energy, and this energy can transformed from one form to another. Human body has a tremendous resource of certain kind of energy, responsible for physical, emotional or mental activities. Human can achieve this kind of energy from food, water and light. These are the main resources of life [12]. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), recommended the use of CAM therapies like biofield energy as an alternative in the healthcare field. About 36% of US citizens regularly use some form of CAM [13], in their daily activities. In the year 2002, Korotkov K measured the human energy field level during CAM therapy with the help of computerized gas discharge visualization (GDV) technique based on Kirlian effect. They claimed it is a first tool to visualize the distribution of human’s fields, more easily, reproducibly, graphically and, very inexpensive [14, 15]. Mr. Trivedi’s unique biofield treatment (The Trivedi effect®) has been extensively contributed in scientific communities in the field of agricultural science [16-19], chemical science [20], etc. Due to the necessity of mango as the food resource, and to improve its overall productivity an effective measure need to be established. Under these circumstances, the present work was undertaken to evaluate the effect of biofield energy treatment on mangoes in relation to morphological characteristics of leaves, flowers and fruits, quality, and yield. The genetic analysis was performed using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD).

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