Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding

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  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Morphological, yield and quality variability among the accessions of Plumbago zeylanica

  • Author:
  • L. Nalina1,, K. Shanthanu2, K. Rajamani1, A. John Joel3, Tushar Dhanani4, Raghuraj Singh4, Satyanshu Kumar4
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 680 to 687

1Department of Medicinal & Aromatic Crops, HC & RI, TNAU, Coimbatore-3

2Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph

3Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, TNAU, Coimbatore

4ICAR-Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research, Boriavi-387310, Gujarat, India

Abstract

Forty two accessions of Plumbago zeylanica were collected and evaluated for morphological, yield and quality traits. The results revealed that the accession Pz 27 registered the highest mean value for plant height (178.33cm) and fresh weight of root (518.60g). The same accession registered the maximum number of roots (32.33). Plumbagin content ranged from 0.19–0.34% and was maximum in Pz 15 (0.34%) followed by Pz 17 (0.33%). Correlation between dry root weight and morpho economic characters revealed that dry root weight exhibited positive and highly significant correlation with fresh root weight, root number and plant height. Based on the dry root weight and plumbagin content the accessions in Part III (Pz 19 and Pz 20) and Part IV (Pz 25, Pz 27, Pz 39, Pz 40 and Pz 41) were identified as best performing accessions

Keywords

Germplasm, Plumbago zeylanica, morphological, yield and quality variation