Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Saudan Singh

Ajit Kumar Shasany

Janak Raj Bahl

Sushil Kumar

Suman Preet Singh Khanuja

Mahendra Pandurang Darokar

Alok Kalra

Nirmal Kumar Patra

Raj Kishori Lal

Vijay Pal Singh

Anil Kumar Gupta

Paltoo Ram

Ali Arif Naqvi

Mansoor Alam

Arif Ali Naqvi

Hari Om Misra

Abdul Sattar

Samresh Dwivedi

Surendra Pratap Singh

Kambod Singh

Bali Ram Tyagi

Aparbal Singh

Dharani Dhar Patra

Ram Sajivan Shukla

Moti Lal Gupta

Ram Chandra

Muni Ram

Hari Krishna Singh

Suman Preet Khanuja

Ram Ujagir

Vikram Singh

Shilpi Agarwal

Dwijendra Singh

Akhtar Haseeb

Krishan Kumar Agarwal

Kailash Singh

Arun Kumar Agnihotri

Om Prakesh Dhawan

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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A new and distinct hybrid plant named `Himalaya` (Mentha arvensis) characterized by its higher yield of oil which is rich in menthol, improved regeneration potential, vigorous growth, deep green broad thick leaves, pinkish white flowers and tolerance to rust such as alternaria leaf blight, corynespora leaf spot and powdery mildew.

Mini plant Mentha arvensis `Himalaya`

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