Plant height, fresh herb yield, dry herb yield, dry leaf yield, dry stem yield, essential oil content and constituents were determined.
Statistical analyses showed that the plant height, fresh herb yield, dry herb yield, dry stem yield and essential oil content were all affected by the harvest stages.
Enhanced soil nitrogen was positively correlated with herb yield (0.719*) and plant height (0.797*).
Data obtained from in-house and field study explained, significant differences between applied bioinoculants (field – herb yield 16.7 60.7% increment, oil yield – 27.2 51.2%, seed yield – 18.2 51.3%), vs. chemical control (carbofuran – 14%, 20%, 3.7%) and untreated control.
The LDL clones differed in several herb related agronomic characteristics such as plant height, herb yield, canopy size and number of branches per plant from the parental type as well as from the parent, which seems advantageous for commercial exploitation of such clones.
Among quantitative traits plant height and herb yield are highly significant except L S S ratio and oil content, which was non-significant (Table 1).
High heritability coupled with high genetic advance observed for herb yield was under additive genetic control and simple selection for these traits would be quite effective.
The observations on morphometric traits, namely, plant height, L : S ratio, herb yield, and oil content, were recorded in the month of April every year (2010 2013) at the maturity of crop.
Menthofuran rich eight half-sib seed progeny of Mentha piperita (MPS-36) were studied for various genetic parameters, namely, coefficient of variation, heritability, genetic advance, correlation, and path of various plant and oil attributes, namely, plant height, L : S ratio, herb yield, β -myrcene, limonene, 1,8-cineole, menthone, menthofuran, neomenthone, pulegone, and menthol.
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