Research Article | Published: 01 December 2016

Influence of the Status of Planting Material on Growth and Yield Characters of Travancore Starch Plant (Curcuma aeruginosa L.)

V. Soorya, V. V. Radhakrishnan and K. V. Mohanan

Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products | Volume: 23 | Issue: 4 | Page No. 195-197 | 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2016-HVU4Q8 | Cite this article

Abstract

Curcuma aeruginosa L., popularly known as Travancore starch plant is an underexploited starchy tuber crop belonging to the family Zingiberaceae. An experiment was designed and carried out presently to evaluate the performance of the crop of Curcuma aeruginosa in relation to the status of the planting materials used.  Three types of planting materials such as the mother rhizome, primary fingers and secondary fingers of Curcuma aeruginosa collected from the northern districts of Kerala State of India forms the experimental material. Fifteen growth and yield characters were comparatively studied and among them only three such as the number of leaves per tiller, number of primary fingers and diameter of mother rhizome exhibited statistically significant variations in relation to the status of the planting material. The outcome of the present study indicates the advantage of using mother rhizome, primary fingers and secondary fingers as planting materials so that more number of seed rhizomes can be obtained from a single mother plant.

Keywords

Curcuma aeruginosa, Planting Material, Growth and Yield Characters, Travancore starch plant, Zingiberaceae, Tuber crop

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Soorya, V., Radhakrishnan, V.V. and Mohanan, K.V., 2016. Influence of the Status of Planting Material on Growth and Yield Characters of Travancore Starch Plant (Curcuma aeruginosa L.). Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 23(4), pp.195-197. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2016-HVU4Q8

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