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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Agron.

Sec. Agroecological Cropping Systems

Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fagro.2025.1657329

This article is part of the Research TopicEnhancing Ecosystem Services through Conservation Agriculture, Agroforestry, and Traditional Farming SystemsView all 6 articles

Assessment of Cultivar Performance and Diversity of Lemongrass (Cymbopogon spp.) in the foot hills of Himalayan Riverbeds

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Jagmohan Singh TomarJagmohan Singh Tomar1Anupam BarhAnupam Barh1*Deepika RawatDeepika Rawat1Rajesh KaushalRajesh Kaushal1Annepu Sudheer KumarAnnepu Sudheer Kumar1V K VarshneyV K Varshney2M MadhuM Madhu1
  • 1ICAR - Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Dehradun, India
  • 2Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India

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The study investigates the potential for cultivating lemongrass, in degraded riverbed wastelands characterized by ustifluvent soils. Lemongrass is an aromatic grass species adaptable to various soil types and agro-climatic conditions. Eight distinct cultivars (viz., Cauvery, Chirharit, CIM-Suwarna, CIM-Shikar, Krishna, Parman, Pragati and Nima) were evaluated for their herbage yield, growth attributes and constituents of volatile oil. The maximum herbage yield of 27.83 t ha -1 was recorded in the Krishna followed by 26.57 t ha -1 in the Pragati and the maximum volatile oil content of 0.55% was found in the Krishna followed by Pragati which showed their suitability for cultivation in the degraded lands of the study area. The Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy analysis detected the differential presence of various chemical constituents in the tested cultivars and validated the hypothesis on the effect of stress conditions on the essential oil composition of the lemon grass. Citral is the major constituent of lemongrass with maximum content in the cv. CIM-Suwarna (51.67%).

Keywords: Degraded lands, Cultivar diversity, oil percentage, citral, oil content

Received: 01 Jul 2025; Accepted: 19 Aug 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Tomar, Barh, Rawat, Kaushal, Sudheer Kumar, Varshney and Madhu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Anupam Barh, ICAR - Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Dehradun, India

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