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| Title: | Variability in the accessions from Aravali range assessed for domestication of the Cleomaceae biodiesel plant Cleome viscosa Linn. |
| Authors: | Kumari, Rashmi
Tyagi, Anshika
Sharma, Vishakha
Jain, Vinod Kumar
Kumar, Sushil |
| Keywords: | Biodiesel
Non-edible oil-seed
Rainfed crop
Cleome viscosa
Short-duration plant |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl. (2011.01)-A61K 36/00 |
| Abstract: | In an earlier study at our laboratory showed that the biodiesel derived
from the seed oil of the annual herbaceous medicinal weed plant Cleome viscosa Linn. possesses
properties similar to the commercial biodiesel produced from Jatropha seed oil. Here, the
possibilities of domestication of C.
viscosa were examined. With this objective, 15 accessions from Aravali
range in North-West India and two from North-East India were evaluated for
phenotypic and genetic variability. The accessions were cultivated in four
seasons from May to November 2009 at New Delhi by growing them in randomized
block design replicated four times. The accessions were studied for 6
qualitative and 13 agronomic characters and significant genetic variability in
all the agronomic traits was observed. On the basis of morphological features,
the accessions fell into two groups: a small leaved group and a large leaved
group. While the small leaved group comprised of accessions from Rajasthan, the
large leaved group included accessions from different locations in North-west
and North-East India. One of the small leaved accessions called CVR14 was
identified as a putative high yielding accession. The July-October (or
monsoon-autumn) season of about 13-15 weeks was observed to be the most
suitable period for obtaining rainfed crop of C. viscosa CVR14. The DNA fingerprinting based analysis of
hierarchical relationships between accessions demonstrated that large leaved
and small leaved accessions were inter-related. The results indicated that C. viscosa accessions from diverse
locations perhaps comprised a single complex. |
| Page(s): | 246-255 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0976-0512 (Online); 0976-0504 (Print) |
| Source: | IJNPR Vol.3(2) [June 2012]
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