Pant Lemon 1
From GBPUAT Pantnagar, grafted, not grown from seed. Thin-skinned with a high juice content — bears through more of the year than the common kagzi lime seedling it has been replacing.
Quick facts
- Crop
- Lemon & Lime
- Type
- Planting material
- Season
- All seasons
- Maturity period
- Bearing from year 3–4 (grafted plant)
- Expected yield
- 150–180 q/ha at full bearing
- Suitable soil
- Loam
- Release
- A single-plant selection from Kagzi Kalan lemon made at GBPUAT, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) — exact release year not confirmed by any source found; already in citrus research literature by the early 1990s.
About this variety
Pant Lemon 1 is a single-plant selection from the common 'Kagzi Kalan' lemon, made at GBPUAT (Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology), Pantnagar, Uttarakhand — a fact repeated across multiple independent search results, though no single directly-fetched primary page could be found stating an exact release year; university thesis and journal references to the cultivar go back to at least the early 1990s, suggesting it was already an established release by then. It has since become the subject of ongoing agronomy research under western Uttar Pradesh Tarai conditions — a directly-fetched 2023 Pharma Innovation Journal study tested zinc sulphate, borax and copper sulphate foliar sprays on the variety, though it did not report baseline variety characteristics. A directly-fetched commercial nursery listing (VNR Nursery) describes big, spheroid, yellow fruit averaging 80–100 g, 7–7.5° Brix TSS, about 4.6% acidity, high juice content and a roughly 19-day shelf life — plausible figures for a Kagzi-type lemon selection, though the same page's claim that a named private breeder developed the variety conflicts with the GBPUAT-selection origin found elsewhere and is not used here.
Key characteristics
Yield & maturity
Maturity period
Bearing from year 3–4 (grafted plant)
Expected yield
150–180 q/ha at full bearing
Actual yield depends on sowing time, soil, irrigation, weather, seed quality and crop management.
Pest & disease considerations
Major diseases
Advantages & considerations
Why farmers may choose it
- High juice content and notably milder than many kagzi lemons, per a directly-fetched nursery listing’s reported 7–7.5° Brix TSS against roughly 4.6% acidity
- Bred at a Tarai-belt research station (GBPUAT Pantnagar), giving it a track record specifically suited to western Uttar Pradesh / Uttarakhand growing conditions, where it remains the subject of active agronomy trials
- Reasonable post-harvest shelf life for a lemon — about 19 days per the same directly-fetched nursery source
Things to consider
- This record's own diseaseResistance field already flags only moderate canker tolerance; no source found this pass added anything variety-specific on that front, so the existing caution stands as-is
- A commercial nursery page attributes Pant Lemon 1 to a named private breeder, which conflicts with the GBPUAT single-plant-selection origin corroborated elsewhere — the GBPUAT account is used here as the better-supported one, but it's worth knowing generic-sounding 'Pant Lemon' names are also used by nurseries for their own stock
Suitable regions
States this variety is recommended for — check locally, since a state can have more than one recommended zone.
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- Punjab
Frequently asked questions
Where did Pant Lemon 1 come from?
It began as a single-plant selection from the common Kagzi Kalan lemon, made at GBPUAT Pantnagar in Uttarakhand — not a cross-bred hybrid. It has been an established, well-studied cultivar in Tarai-region citrus research since at least the early 1990s.
Is Pant Lemon 1 sweeter than an ordinary kagzi lemon?
Reported figures put it around 7–7.5° Brix TSS against about 4.6% acidity, which does read as milder and juicier than a typical unselected kagzi lime — though these numbers come from a single nursery listing, not a formal ICAR trial, so treat them as indicative rather than exact.
Sourced from: Pant Lemon — VNR Nursery, Enhancing yield and economic returns of lemon (Citrus Limon) cv. pant lemon-1 through optimized foliar application of micronutrients — The Pharma Innovation Journal. editorial policy.