History of Carnation

Lecture 2 : History of Improvement of Ornamental Plants- Part II
    Carnation:
    • IIHR, Bangalore has released the first variety in India as Arka Flame as a result of in vitro mutation breeding. Recently another variety Arka Tejas has been released.
    • At I.A.R.I., New Delhi, experiments on mutation breeding were carried out. Seeds of different lines of carnation have been irradiated with 6 to 20 kr. dosage of gamma rays and some interesting mutants with variegated leaf were obtained (Kaicker, 1988).
    • Development of new hybrids through in vitro mutation breeding is also in progress at Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan and the mutants are under evaluation.

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