Patent ID: 6831214
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: A01H

Abstract:
A high yielding, stable and self-pollinated plant Cymbopogon martinii, known as seed deposit accession no. NCIMB 41154 with the NCIMB Ltd., 23 St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3RY, Scotland and christened as â€˜Vaishnaviâ€™, belonging to the family Poaceae and having the following characteristics:(a) self-pollinated genotype having no inbreeding depression; (b) having cleistogamous stigma that does not come out of glumes of the florets and hence prevents out-crossing; (c) florets ranging between 1780 to 1840 arranged in clusters on rachis; (d) recessive homozygous (true-bred) for all its morpho-physiological traits transmitting the said traits en block from its one generation to the next generation without undergoing genetic recombination between traits; (e) inflorescence: stem (w/w) ratio ranging between 1.40 to 1.50; (f) oil content ranging between 0.75 to 0.80%; (g) seed yield of at least 24.3 quintals per hectare; (h) oil yield of at least 164.7 kg per hectare; (i) geraniol yield of at least 135.0 kg per hectare; and (j) oil constituents comprising geraniol of at least 78% and geraniol acetate of at least 8% and the rest being unidentified fractions in the essential oil all totaling to 100% at different stages of growth.