Registration of variety: CIM-Surabhi: Alinalool rich, high essential oil yielding variety of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)

摘要

The essential oil of sweet basil (family: Lamiaceae) is used in flavour, fragrance, food, oral health preparations and traditional house hold medicines. 189 genetic stocks of Genus Ocimum are available at CSIR-CIMAP for research and exploitation. Theessential oil of sweet basil with linalool, linalool acetate in desired combinations are in high demand for making various innovative cosmetic and perfumery products. Applying half sib selection technique on an Ocimum basilicum population, a new improvedcultivar (namely OBC-1) has been developed. This cultivar has been released for its commercial cultivation in the name of variety CIM-Surabhi. Besides being a high linalool containing genotype, this variety will also provide additional income to farmersas it yield higher herb (221.30ql/ha) and essential oil (166 kg/ha) recovery. The oil of this variety is rich in 70-75 %(-) linalool. The (-) linalool in this variety is of 99.14 % purity and is superior to that obtained from lavender. The new cultivaralso fits in crop rotation/intercropping between wheat and paddy and with other vegetables crops.