Volume: 42 Issue: 2
Evaluation of Mentha arvensis L. cultivars for essential oil yield in Southern tropical regions of India
Year: 2020, Page: 127-131, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v42i2.Hiremath
Received: Dec. 13, 2019 Accepted: March 4, 2020 Published: July 1, 2020
A field experiment was conducted during 2017-18 at CSIR-CIMAP Research Centre, Bengaluru to study the oil yields of Mentha arvensis L. cultivars viz., CIM-Saryu, CIM-Kranti and Kosi for assessing their suitability of cultivation under southern climatic condition. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three treatments, replicated seven times. The three cultivars were hydro distilled for ascertaining their essential oil contents and analysis for quality evalauation. The results revealed that the oil content in Kosi and CIM-Kranti was 1.30%, while that of CIM-Saryu was 1.1 %. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) was performed for analysing the menthol content in the essential oils, which showed that there was no significant variation in the menthol content in the three cultivars. The menthol content in Kosi, CIM-Kranti, and CIM-Saryu were estimated to be 77.59%, 78.68 % and 77.86 %, respectively.
Keywords: Cultivars, Essential Oil, Menthol mint, Southern India
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