Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Neetu Katiyar

Sushil Kumar

Alok Kalra

Om Parkash Dhawan

Rakesh Pandey

Suman Preet Singh Khanuja

Nirmal Kumar Patra

Janak Raj Bahl

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Harikesh Bahadur Singh

Alok Krishna

Harmesh Singh Chauhan

Moti Lal Gupta

Arun Prasad

Ramesh Srivastava

The present invention provides a formulation for increasing the synthesis and accumulation of essential oil in aromatic plants and other plants. The formulation disclosed herein comprises a resistance inducer, such as an isomer of amino butyric acid or another amino acid, which is capable of increasing the synthesis of essential oil in an aromatic plant. The formulation may further comprise secondary metabolites as well as a carrier. Aromatic plants that may be used in the present invention include, but are not limited to, rose-scented geranium ( ) and menthol mint ( ). The present invention also provides a method of increasing the essential oil content in aromatic crops and other plants.

Formulation and method for increasing the essential oil content in aromatic crops

The present invention relates preparation of superior quality vermicompost from the distillation wastes of aromatic crops said method comprises drying of distillation waste for 24 to 72 hours, obtained after the distillation of herbage for 2-3 h. at 20-25lbs of steam pressure, chopping the waste into small pieces, transferring this material into compost pits containing about 7-10 cm layer of partially rotten cowdung and 400-450 earthworms ( )/m , daily watering of the pits to keep the plant material moist and covering them with gunny bags to check the loss of humidity, reloading the pits (20-30 cm layer) with the chopped distilled waste after 30-35 days, restricting watering after complete degradation of the added material, harvesting of the dried material and shade drying the same for 4-5 days, and sieving the harvested compost to remove earthworms.

Method for the faster multiplication of earthworms, and production of vermicompost from the distillation waste of industrial aromatic crops

A strain of is obtained that is useful as a nematode inhibitor, fungicide and plant growth promoter. The strain has ATCC accession number PTA-3701. The strain is isolated by treating isolated from experimental fields of Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) Field Station with a mutagen such as ethyl methyl sulphonate, and isolating a whitish and fast growing strain of

Strain of Trichoderma harzianum useful as nematode inhibitor, fungicide and plant growth promoter and a process for the isolation thereof

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