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In order to study the role of carbohydrates in the paclobutrazol induced floral initiation in mango (Mangifera indica L.), the carbohydrate contents and the activities of amylase and sucrose metabolizing enzymes were analyzed in the apical buds and leaves of growing shoots at 4 bud developmental stages numerically characterized as 510 (initiation of bud swelling), 511 (swollen buds), 513 (bud burst) and 515 (panicle emergence) according to standard BBCH scale. The soil drenching treatment of paclobutrazol @ 3.0 ml m⁻¹ canopy diameter to the mango cv. Totapuri resulted in increase in the contents of total soluble sugars, reducing sugars, starch, sucrose, glucose and fructose in the apical buds and leaves, and the increases were greater in apical buds. Both in the paclobutrazol treated and control trees, the contents of total soluble sugar, reducing sugar, sucrose, glucose and fructose showed a …