Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Department of Biotechnology

Ali Arif Naqvi

Suman Preet Singh Khanuja

Ajit Kumar Shasany

Janak Raj Bahl

Sushil Kumar

Mahendra Pandurang Darokar

Anil Kumar Singh

Raj Kishori Lal

Sunita Dhawan

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Om Parkash Dhawan

Hari Om Misra

Samresh Dwivedi

Alok Krishna

Alok Kalra

Nirmal Kumar Patra

Dharmendra Saikia

Vivek Kumar Gupta

Anil Kumar Gupta

Arun Kumar Tripathy

Soumya Awasthi

Veena Prajapati

Sarita Satapathy

Jawahar Ram Sharma

Ajay Pratap Singh

Virendra Kumar Singh Tomar

Aparbal Singh

Ateeque Ahmed

Dharani Dhar Patra

Rajesh Luthra

Moti Lal Gupta

Arun Prasad

Ram Chandra

Nilakshi Singh

Suman P S Khanuja

Soni Gupta

Usha Yadav

Saudan Singh

Shilpi Agarwal

Vinod Shanker Dubey

Tiruppadiripuliyur R S Kumar

Arun Kumar Agnihotri

Arvind K Tripathi

Krishna K Agrawal

Sweta Pandey

Alok Kaira

Maneesha Singh

Om Prakesh Dhawan

Vandana Singh

Ram Prakash Bansal

Indian basil,belongs to the family of Lamiaceae. The essential oil of Indian basil extracted via hydro or steam distillation from the leaves or whole plants is used to flavor foods, dental and oral products, in fragrances, and in traditional rituals and medicines. Extracted essential oil has also been shown to contain biologically active constituents that are insecticidal, nematicidal, fungistatic or which have antimicrobial properties. The present invention relates to the development of an early, short duration, dwarf, high essential oil, methy chavicol and linalool yielding variety of Indian basil (). Family&#x2014;Lamiaceae) named as 'CIM-SAUMYA'. This new variety of Indian basil was developed through open pollination in the germplasm followed by half-sib progeny selection and evaluation for the yield characters of selected population for 3 years in field conditions. The new cultivar possesses better growth and vegetative growth and is able to produce higher herbage, oil and better combination of methyl chavicol and linalool yield per unit area as compared to other control genotypes.

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The present invention relates to the development of a novel multiutility vigorously growing robust mint plant 'Ganga' ofL. var.producing essential oil exhibiting anti-insect and anti-microbial activities and useful for agrochemical and pharmaceutical purposes.

Mint plant Mentha spicata L. var.viridis christened as 'Ganga'

A new and distinct high essential oil variety of lemongrass () is named 'Nima'. Further, the invention relates to the high content of the monoterpene citral in the essential oil. This novel variety 'Nima' of lemongrass is a selection from the open pollinated seedlings of the seeds obtained from anothervariety OD 19 from the germ plasm collection of CIMAP. This variety is propagated through vegetative means using the slips and is stable for commercial cultivation.

Citral rich high yielding lemongrass plant 'Nima' of Cymbopogon flexuosus

The present invention was related to the development of a novel, distinct high yielding plant with rapid regeneration ability obtained through screening of the somaclones in a methodical way for fast regeneration in the tissue culture stage itself which was achieved by inventing the plant 'Kushal'. The plant yield higher herbage with corresponding high essential oil when evaluated with available superior varieties of mint in late planting condition during April when the fields are vacated after the harvest of Rabi crop like wheat, chickpea, coriander etc. Further the suckers required for commercial vegetative planting can be produced even in low land condition as the plant is reasonably tolerant to water logging compared to the best check 'Kosi'.

Mint plant 'Kushal' for late transplanting

Described as a new Peppermint mutant having a high yield of menthol rich essential oil, deep purplish green foliage, purplish white flowers, a delayed temporary wilting point and tolerance to the pest Bihar hairy caterpillar ( ).

Peppermint plant named 'Pranjal'

This invention relates to a new and distinct mint plant of 'Saksham', developed through tissue culture, possessing the following combination of characters namely producing higher amount of menthol with high essential oil yield as well as herbage yield; possessing better growth and vegetative growth with high regenerability; has distinct molecular profile by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD); retains the characteristics of tolerance to leaf spot, rust and powdery mildew as in the parent variety 'Himalaya'; has light greenish leaves, pinkish white flowers like the parent plant &lsquo;Himalaya&rsquo;, this new plant is able to produce higher herbage, oil and menthol yield per unit area as compared to other existing improved varieties.

Mint plant named 'Saksham'

A novel esterase, cleaving acyclic monoterpenyl esters into their monoterpenols, has been detected in the crude enzymic preparation of palmarosa ( ) inflorescence. The extraction and assay condition for the enzyme has been standardized. The esterase enzyme has shown maximum activity in the alkaline pH range, with optimum temperature at 30&deg; C. using geranyl acetate (acyclic monoterpenyl acetate) as substrate. Time course hydrolysis of geranyl acetate using crude enzymic preparation revealed that after 24 hours of incubation approximately 75% geranyl acetate was hydrolyzed. The crude esterase enzyme, when stored at 4&deg; C., was quite stable for one week with 40% loss of activity. The enzyme also has the capability to hydrolyze other acyclic monoterpenyl esters such as geranyl formate and citronellyl acetate, which are normally present in several aromatic plant species.

Stable esterase obtained from palmarosa

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