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Aonla is an important indigenous fruit crop of Indian subcontinent which is generally used in alternative medicine, health foods, herbal products and beverages. To identify the elite genotypes among the population the matured fruits of Eighteen genotypes and two varieties were analyzed for physico chemical traits like fruit weight, pulp weight, seed weight, fruit volume, specific gravity, moisture content, pulp: stone ratio, total soluble solids, acidity, ascorbic acid, reducing sugars and total sugars. The study revealed that there was a wide variability among the accessions. Individual fruit weight varied from 24.18 to 42.57 g, pulp percent varied from 93.70 to 97.17%, seed weight varied from 1.06 to 2.55g, pulp:seed ratio from 14.91 to 34.59. There is a wide variation in chemical characters also total soluble solids varied from 6.22° to 9.21° brix, titrable acidity from 0.80 to 1.48 %, ascorbic acid varies from 456.22 to 523.23mg/100gm, reducing sugars from 2.06 to 3.00%, total sugars from 3.31 to 4.85 % .Wide variation in physico chemical analysis of genotypes indicated that there is scope for individual plant selection based on these characters for genetic improvement of aonla.

Keywords: Aonla, Ascorbic acid, Sugars.