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High-Yielding Multicut Coriander Variety, Arka Isha


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1 Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore – 560 089, India
2 Division of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, IIHR, Bangalore, India
3 Division of Post Harvest Technology, IIHR, Bangalore, India
 

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) is one of the important leafy vegetables having a pleasant aroma. Very little research work has been done on improvement of leafy coriander and only a few local varieties, low-yielding and with low aroma, are available in the market. Research work at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research has resulted in development of a leafy coriander variety, Arka Isha, with a high yield potential and good aroma. It is a multicut variety where the plants are bushy, leaves are broad and leaf lobes are short, and the variety is late flowering. Yield is 3.74t ha-1 by pulling at 40 days after sowing, and 11.98t ha-1 by cutting. Leaves have 167.05mg 100g-1 of Vitamin C, with good aroma and keeping-quality.

Keywords

Leafy Coriander, Variety, Yield.
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Authors

B. Varalakshmi
Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore – 560 089, India
V. Kesava Rao
Division of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, IIHR, Bangalore, India
D. V. Sudhakar Rao
Division of Post Harvest Technology, IIHR, Bangalore, India
R. B. Tiwari
Division of Post Harvest Technology, IIHR, Bangalore, India
M. Prabhakar
Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta Lake Post, Bangalore – 560 089, India

Abstract


Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) is one of the important leafy vegetables having a pleasant aroma. Very little research work has been done on improvement of leafy coriander and only a few local varieties, low-yielding and with low aroma, are available in the market. Research work at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research has resulted in development of a leafy coriander variety, Arka Isha, with a high yield potential and good aroma. It is a multicut variety where the plants are bushy, leaves are broad and leaf lobes are short, and the variety is late flowering. Yield is 3.74t ha-1 by pulling at 40 days after sowing, and 11.98t ha-1 by cutting. Leaves have 167.05mg 100g-1 of Vitamin C, with good aroma and keeping-quality.

Keywords


Leafy Coriander, Variety, Yield.