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Field performance of somaclones of rose scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens L’ Her Ex Ait.) for evaluation of their essential oil yield and composition

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Title Field performance of somaclones of rose scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens L’ Her Ex Ait.) for evaluation of their essential oil yield and composition
 
Creator Saxena, Gauri
Rahman, Laiq-ur
Verma, Praveen Chandra
Banerjee, Suchitra
Kumar, Sushil
 
Subject Essential oil
Field evaluation
Morphotypes
Pelargonium
Rose scented geranium
Somaclones
 
Description Several randomly selected glasshouse grown somaclones of rose scented geranium, Pelargonium graveolens L’Her Ex Ait. cv. Hemanti were successfully transferred to the field in Northern India for evaluation. Two distinct morphotypes were described on the basis of leaf dentation-one resembling the parental cultivar in having highly dentated leaves (HDL) and the other with less dentated leaves (LDL). After repeated field-testing for 3 consecutive years, the HDL clones closely resembled the parental cultivar with respect to the different quantity and quality determining traits, while the LDL group was clearly different. The field established LDL somaclones possessed higher herb yield, number of branches and other oil yield attributing traits as compared to the HDL clones and the parent cultivar. The chemical investigations of the essential oil revealed significant differences between the LDL clones, the HDL clones and the control. Selection of such somaclones, which are superior to the parental in most of the quantitative and qualitative traits and show better adaptability to different areas of cultivation, will help towards commercialization of geranium in India.
 
Date 2013-11-12T05:28:42Z
2013-11-12T05:28:42Z
2008
1 August 2007
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Industrial Crops and products, 27(1): 86-90
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98
 
Language en
 
Publisher Elsevier B.V.