ABSTRACT

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.), a fruit-bearing shrub with extensive genetic and geographical diversity, effectively takes its place among several other significant global fruit crops. The global demand for pomegranate is increasing consistently since this fruit has recently been merited with the status of a ‘super fruit’; apart from its other culinary and medicinal (both ethnomedical and modern) uses. Thus, researchers from different parts of the world have been trying to standardise agro-technical, in vitro-biotechnological and molecular-marker-assisted technologies for enhanced production, superior plant protection, post-harvest management, and genetic improvement of pomegranate, grown in various agro-climatic zones. Upon realising this context, the present review was framed after an extensive groundwork, carried out on 250 published scientific articles, reports, bulletins, and web pages extracted from various scientific (CeRA, Google Scholar, JGate, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) and public (Google and Bing) domains, in order to summarise most of the recent advancements in botanical, ethno-medicinal uses, agro-technological advancements, post-harvest management and molecular characterisation of pomegranate. This review further includes surveys on multiple technologies, along with their achievements and demerits that need immediate attention of the pomegranate researchers for sustainable improvement of this fruit crop, with immense medicinal value.

摘要

石榴（Punica granatum L.）是一种具有丰富的遗传和地理多样性的水果灌木，可在其他几种重要的全球水果作物中有效地取代它。全球石榴的需求持续增长，因为这种水果最近被评为“超级水果”。除了其其他烹饪和药用（民族和现代）用途外。因此，来自世界各地的研究人员一直在尝试对农用技术进行体外标准化-在各种农业气候区种植的生物技术和分子标记辅助技术，用于提高产量，提供出色的植物保护，收获后管理以及石榴的遗传改良。在意识到这一背景后，本次审查是在广泛的基础上进行的，对从各种科学（CeRA，Google Scholar，JGate，PubMed，Scopus和Web of Science）摘录的250篇发表的科学文章，报告，公告和网页进行了研究）和公共（Google和Bing）领域，以总结植物，民族医学用途，农业技术进步，收获后管理和石榴的分子表征方面的最新进展。这次审查还包括对多种技术的调查，