Abstract
A B ST R A C T Crocus sativus L. is one of the most precious plants of the world. Its flower contains the three key components such as crocins, picrocrocin and safranal. Since ancient times C. sativus is widely being used as medicine, spice and food colorant around the globe. It propagates through rhizomes. It is usually being cultivated in few countries of the world. In the present study an attempt has been made to grow the rhizomes of C. sativus collected form Kishtwar in the Botanical Garden of the Department of Botany, University of Pune, Pune. During the study the most of sown rhizome grows well, but the flowering stage was not reported. The environmental factors may be the reason for this flower less stage of the C. sativus .
Highlights
In the present study an attempt has been made to grow the rhizomes of C. sativus collected from Kishtwar in
Five types of crocins ranging from crocin-1 to crocin-5 are reported to be present in the C. sativus and its other species (Trantilis et al.,1995)
The picrocrocin is responsible for bitterness and odour of the saffron and is used in flavoring (Zarghami and Heinz, 1971; Visvanath et al, 1990; Auria et al, 2006)
Summary
5. Department of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007, Maharashtra, India. 8. Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007, Maharashtra, India. In the present study an attempt has been made to grow the rhizomes of C. sativus collected from Kishtwar (temperate region) in
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