Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Amit Kumar Singh and Vijay Kumar Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 88 ISBN: 9783659518089
Описание
African Marigold (Tagetes erecta L)is an important commercial flower of India, belonging to family Asteraceae. It is also known as friendship flower in the United States and represents vulgar minds. Easy cultivation and wider adaptability of the crop has increased its popularity . Flowers are sold in the market as loose flower or for making garlands, offering in temples, churches, festivals, beautification and landscape. Although marigold is a very important flower, yet very little research work had been done towards the crop improvement. It has a lot of variation with respect to growth and flower characters, which varies with germplasm. Germplasm serves as valuable natural reservoir in providing needed attributes for developing successful varieties. However, the extent of improvement depends upon the amount of variability in different characters present in the crops, which is an indispensable prerequisite for successful breeding programmes. Therefore, selection accordance to high...