Vaishnavi, a high yielding self-pollinated Cymbopogon martinii
AssigneeCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research
InventorsNirmal Kumar Patra, Sushil Kumar, Alok Kalra, Herikesh Bahadur Singh, Hemendra Pratap Singh, Ved Ram Singh, Hasan Tanveer, Nareshwar Mengi, Om Parkash Dhawan, Mahendra Singh Negi, Paltoo Ram, Vijay Pal Singh, Jitendra Pal Singh
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Abstract
The invention relates to a novel palmarosa plant christened as “Vaishnavi”, said plant capable of setting seeds under selfing conditions and having high oil yield potential, and developed employing crop-burning technique as a physical mutagen.
Claims3
A high yielding, stable and self-pollinated plant Cymbopogon martinii christened as “Vaishnavi”, belonging to the family Poaceae and having the following characteristics:
- a. self-pollinated genotype having no inbreeding depression;
- b. having cleistogamous stigma that does not come out of glumes of the florets and hence prevents out-crossing;
- c. containing robust inflorescence having maximum oil concentration;
- d. florets ranging between 1780 to 1840 arranged in clusters on rachis;
- e. recessive homozygous (true-bred) for all its morpho-physiological traits transmitting the said traits en block from its one generation to the next generation without undergoing genetic recombination between traits;
- f. inflorescence:
- stem (w/w) ratio ranging between 1.40 to 1.50 wherein robust inflorescence having the maximum oil concentration
- g. oil content ranging between 0.75 to 0.80%;
- h. seed yield of at least 24.3 quintals per hectare;
- i. oil yield of at least 164.7 kg per hectare;
- j. geraniol yield of at least 135.0 kg per hectare
- k. oil constituents comprising maximum extent of geraniol of at least 78% and geranyl acetate of at least 8% and the rest being unidentified fractions in the essential oil all totaling to 100% at different stages of growth.
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