Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeack
Rose scented geranium pelargonium graveolenes plant &#8216;Safal&#8217;
The invention relates to a new, distinct and unique plant of rose scented geranium Pelargonium graveolens &#8216;Safal&#8217; derived from a rare seed-set in cultivar &#8216;Bipuli,&#8217; apparently the result of hybridization between largely sterile populations of the cultivar accessions &#8216;Bipuli&#8217; and &#8216;Hemanti&#8217;, possessing the following combination of characteristics namely demonstrated vigour in the essential oil yield related traits in great measure and out yielded all the other accessions; the essential oil of the plant has 89% rhodinol content in which citronellol to geraniol ratio is approximately 1:1 and the contents of isomenthone, menthone, 10-epi-&ggr;-eudesmol, 6,9-guaiadiene, decanoic acid and isodecanoic acid were relatively lower than in the oils of accessions &#8216;Bipuli&#8217; and/or &#8216;Hemanti&#8217;, this plant can be propagated vegetatively through stem cuttings and suitable for commercial cultivation in large scale.
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
Srinivas Iyer Kakaraparthi Pandu Sushil Mahendra Pandurang Ajit Kumar Suchitra Ritika Gopal Rao Suman Preet Singh
Ramesh Sastry Kumar Darokar Shasany Banerjee Gupta Mallavarapu Khanuja