Volume: 39 Issue: 1
Registration of a High Rhizome and High Curcuminoid Yielding Variety of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L) CIM-Pitamber
Year: 2017, Page: 49-54, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v40i1.Gupta2
Received: Dec. 30, 2016 Accepted: Dec. 30, 2016 Published: July 1, 2017
Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae), commonly known as turmeric, is not only one of the most popular spices for Indian cuisines, is also one of the most valuable medicinal plants of traditional systems of Indian medicine due to its numerous preventive and curative effects. The pharmaceutical importance of turmeric is due to the presence of linear diarylheptanoidal phenolic molecules that are collectively called as curcuminoids like curcumin, demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin. These compounds are credited with anti-inflammatory, hypocholesterolemic, anti-oxidant, anti-parasitic, anti-spasmodic, antimicrobial, anti-rheumatic, anti-aging and anti-cancer properties. Extensive R&D efforts made during last eight years at CSIR-CIMAP have resulted in the identification of superior clones that can yield more than 50 tons of rhizomes/ha containing more than 10% content of curcuminoids. One such clone rechristened as CIM-Pitambar has been identified, that can produce 60-65 tons rhizomes/ha containing 12.5% curcuminoids in a relatively short span of 180-190 days. This variety has been developed using the method of cloline breeding approach. Among 130 germplasm accessions/clones collected from different parts of India, single plants/clone selection was performed. This variety is also tolerant to leaf blotch disease of turmeric. This variety provides more than 54% higher rhizomes with 92% more curcuminoids, yielding around 165% more curcuminoids/ha than the cultivar IISR Pratibha, Which is the most commonly cultivated variety in North Indian plains. The introduction of CIM-Pitamber in cultivation will enable farmers to double their yield and profits per unit area, and thus will significantly improve the livelihood of poor farmers.
Keywords: Clone, Curcuma Longa, Curcumin, Genetic improvement, Germplasm
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AK Gupta, R Mishra, D Saikia, K Shanker, AS Negi, S Tandon, A Kalra, RK Lal, OP Dhawan, AK Shasany, M Zaim, S Kumar, VKS Tomar, A Srivastava, R Ujagir, S Khwaja. 2017. Registration of a High Rhizome and High Curcuminoid Yielding Variety of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L) CIM-Pitamber. J Med Aromat Plant Sci 39: 49-54.
