Volume: 42 Issue: 1
CIM-Unnati: An essential oil rich variety of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.)
Year: 2020, Page: 73-79, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v42i1.KT
Received: April 10, 2020 Accepted: June 20, 2020 Published: July 1, 2020
Menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.) is cultivated commercially for extraction of essential oil from upper ground herbage (leaves + stem). The essential oil of menthol mint is mainly used for production of menthol and the by-product dementholised oil (DMO) that find extensive applications in pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. A new genotype of menthol mint MASP-19, now christened as CIMUnnati, has been developed by CSIR-CIMAP through intensive breeding efforts for improved essential oil yield. The new variety CIM-Unnati consistently recorded higher essential oil yield over the commercial checks during field evaluation trials. The new variety has a potential to produce 185-190 q/ha herbage that can give an essential oil yield of 185-190 litre/ha. The variety matures in 100- 110 days after planting. The menthol content in the oil is hovers around 74.3 %, which is as per industry requirement. The distinct leaf morphology and high essential oil yield are the two important features of this variety. This variety also satisfies several DUS (Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability) criteria.
Keywords: CIM-Unnati, DUS criteria, Essential oil, Mentha arvensis, Menthol, Menthol mint
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Venkatesha KT, Ved R Singh, Rajendra C Padalia, Rakesh K Upadhyay, Amit Chauhan, Amit K Tiwari, Sonveer Singh, Gunjan Bhatt, Divya, Ragya Pandey, Ram S Verma, Maneesha Mall, Ashutosh K Shukla, Chandan S Chanotiya, Sanjay Kumar, Birendra Kumar, Anil K Gupta, Rajesh K Verma, Abdul Samad, Pankaj Kumar, Mohit C Rawat. 2020. CIM-Unnati: An essential oil rich variety of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.). J Med Aromat Plant Sci 42: 73-79.
