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Morphological characterization of ginger (Zingiber officinale) using DUS descriptors

Published:2019-10-22 Issue:10 Volume:89 Page:
ISSN:2394-3319
Container-title:The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
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Short-container-title:Indian J Agri Sci

Author:

J AKSHITHA H,K UMESHA,D PRASATH

Abstract

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.) is an important spice crop cultivated for its fresh and dried rhizomes. Ginger never sets seed and sexual recombination has never been reported. Cultivars have evolved by unconscious selection and are generally known by the name of the region. Moreover, it is propagated vegetatively and hence, differentiation of genotypes morphologically is difficult. Twenty-seven ginger genotypes were characterized morphologically using DUS guidelines for eight quantitative and two qualitative characters. Among the characters, four characters were monomorphic, four were dimorphic and two were found to be polymorphic. Grouping of genotypes showed narrow variability for most of the morphological characters whereas, rhizome characters exhibited remarkable variability.

Publisher

Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture

Subject

Agronomy and Crop Science

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