Volume: 44 Issue: 4
A new agrotechnology for the quality production of menthol-mint shoots and suckers
Year: 2022, Page: 115-119, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v44i4.Upadhyay
Received: Dec. 2, 2022 Accepted: Dec. 18, 2022 Published: Dec. 30, 2022
Menthol-mint (Mentha arvensis L.), cultivated worldwide in tropical and subtropical countries, is a major source of natural menthol and dementholized oil. A field experiment was conducted at CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India, to study the effect of different aerial parts of menthol-mint on its shoot/sprout and suckers production during Kharif season 2021 & 2022. The results clearly showed that the top aerial plant cutting (10-15 cm length) from the main crop of menthol-mint i.e., taken at the time of harvest and used for the raising of shoot/sprouts (T4 ), provided maximum quality menthol-mint shoot/sprout yield (32.22 q/ha) and menthol-mint suckers yield (204.42 q/ ha) as compared to other treatments. The treatment T4 proved maximum productivity in terms of menthol-mint shoot/sprout yield and menthol-mint suckers. The results showed that it was due to having maximum regenerative quality compared to other treatments.
Keywords: Mentha arvensis, Menthol-mint, Productivity, Shoots, Sprout, Suckers
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Upadhyay RK, Pandey P, Kholiya S, Padalia RC, Venkatesha KT, Kumar D, Chauhan A, Tiwari AK, Singh S, Verma RK. 2022. A new agrotechnology for the quality production of menthol-mint shoots and suckers. J Med Aromat Plant Sci 44: 115-119.
