The cultivars Kanti (245 days), CLT-325 (235 days), Rajapuri (225 days) and PTS-24 (216 days) are medium duration types which are showed better performance. CLT-325, Kanti and PTS-24 are found resistant to leaf blotch and shoot borer compare to rest of the cultivars under study. Correlation study revealed that fresh rhizome yield per hectare exhibited positive and significant correlation with plant height (0.394), number of tillers per plant (0.325), number of leaves per plant (0.298), petiole length (0.555), number of mother rhizome per plant (0.473), number of primary fingers per plant...

Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde is commonly known as Sita-Ashoka or Sorrow less tree. It is an important evergreen sacred tree where bark, flowers and seeds are medicinally important. S. asoca is a red listed species which belongs to the family Caesalpiniaceae. It is one of the important plants of Indian system of medicine known for its variety of pharmacological activities. Commercially, propagation can be done by seeds, but the seed viability is for a very short period and due to non-availability of plants many other plants are used for adulteration in folk medicines in place of Saraca asoca....