1National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Jodhpur-342003
2National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi-110012
*Author for Correspondence: E-mail: omvirsingh@nbpgr.ernet.in
Online published on 21 February, 2015.
Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) is an underutilized shrub grown for extracted oil from seeds for liquid wax. Number of crosses were attempted among the selected parents of exotic collections grown at field genebank at NBPGR, Regional Station, Jodhpur. EC33198-Sel.5 for bold seededness and high yielding F1 hybrid EC33198-Sel.1 ×EC99692 was obtained with 3 seeds/capsuile with regular bearing and high seed yield.
