Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Soni Gupta

Anil Kumar Singh

Suman Preet Singh Khanuja

Ajit Kumar Shasany

Mahendra Pandurang Darokar

Raj Kishori Lal

Virendra Kumar Singh Tomar

Nirmal Kumar Patra

Janak Raj Bahl

Sunita Dhawan

Ravi Prakash Bansal

Om Parkash Dhawan

Ali Arif Naqvi

Birendra Kumar

Alok Krishna

Usha Yadav

Alok Kaira

Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay

Togarrati Padma Priya

Janak Raj Bahal

Sweta Pandey

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

The present invention relates to a new and distinct mint plant of'Cim Indus', selected through screening, field trial and analysis of monoterpene constituents of the essential oil of the germplasm, possessing the characters of producing high amount of menthofuran ranging between 22 to 30% of total oil content, high amount pulegone ranging between 9.0 to 18% of total oil content, with essential oil content ranging between 0.32 to 0.40% of the total oil content.

Mint plant named 'Cim Indus'

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