The oldest evidence about utilization of Saffron dates back to 2,000-1,500 years BC. Saffron is a triploid sterile species that is vegetatively propagation with Corm that only survives for only one season, reproducing via division into "cormlets" that eventually give rise to new plant and took time at least one year for each plants, Each saffron flower has three stigmata and one stigma weights about 2mg. It takes 150,000-200,000 flowers and over 400 h of hand labor to produce 1kg saffron stigma.Now a days by studying in RT-PCR, Real Time PCR, tissue culturing, ... tecniques with the help of...
The oldest evidence about utilization of Saffron dates back to 2,000-1,500 years BC. Saffron is a triploid sterile species that is vegetatively propag...