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Curcuma longa L., known as the ‘golden spice of India’ works as medicine as well as a daily spice in Indian households to date. The current cultivationCultivation practice includes preparation of land, choosing unaffected rhizomeRhizome, fungicide treatment, sowing, frequent maintenance, fertilization and lastly cultivationCultivation. BreedingBreeding curcuma species is quite challenging focusing on water scarcity and diseaseDiseases-resistant varieties. Either conventional techniques like clonal selectionClonal selection and polyploid breedingBreeding, or molecular techniques like bioinformatics and molecular markerMolecular markers-assisted breedingBreeding, or tissue cultureTissue culture through organogenesisOrganogenesis, can be used to improve the situation. All the methods are done to yield a higher amount of efficient turmeric rhizomesRhizome. Currently, there are approximately 20 improved varieties of turmeric. Tissue cultureTissue culture methodologies are currently used for improving the varieties with consistent success and cultivationCultivation. It includes direct and indirect organogenesisOrganogenesis, preparation of synthetic encapsulated seeds for diseaseDiseases prevention. Other methods that are being tested out are mutational breedingBreeding using physical and chemical mutagensChemical Mutagen, and hybridizationHybridization of better varieties to yield efficient varieties. Even though genetic engineeringGenetic engineering efforts are made to improve crop sustainability in the upcoming environment, getting approval for cultivationCultivation takes time. Varieties not only should be accepted by people but also should be adaptable to the global climateClimate change that is currently occurring. Thus, further research is going on for improving the breedingBreeding techniques of turmeric with less usage of chemical fertilizers, higher diseaseDiseases resistance and independence of stimulants for curcuminCurcumin production. This review focuses on the advancement of current breedingBreeding practices of turmeric to date.

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Plant Breeding Advances in Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)

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    2025年

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  • Madhavan Parthasarathy,
  • Adithya Kodagu Anand,
  • K. R. Rakesh Rao,
  • Rashmi Ramakrishnan,
  • Wudali Narasimha Sudheer,
  • Praveen Nagella

摘要

Curcuma longa L., known as the ‘golden spice of India’ works as medicine as well as a daily spice in Indian households to date. The current cultivationCultivation practice includes preparation of land, choosing unaffected rhizomeRhizome, fungicide treatment, sowing, frequent maintenance, fertilization and lastly cultivationCultivation. BreedingBreeding curcuma species is quite challenging focusing on water scarcity and diseaseDiseases-resistant varieties. Either conventional techniques like clonal selectionClonal selection and polyploid breedingBreeding, or molecular techniques like bioinformatics and molecular markerMolecular markers-assisted breedingBreeding, or tissue cultureTissue culture through organogenesisOrganogenesis, can be used to improve the situation. All the methods are done to yield a higher amount of efficient turmeric rhizomesRhizome. Currently, there are approximately 20 improved varieties of turmeric. Tissue cultureTissue culture methodologies are currently used for improving the varieties with consistent success and cultivationCultivation. It includes direct and indirect organogenesisOrganogenesis, preparation of synthetic encapsulated seeds for diseaseDiseases prevention. Other methods that are being tested out are mutational breedingBreeding using physical and chemical mutagensChemical Mutagen, and hybridizationHybridization of better varieties to yield efficient varieties. Even though genetic engineeringGenetic engineering efforts are made to improve crop sustainability in the upcoming environment, getting approval for cultivationCultivation takes time. Varieties not only should be accepted by people but also should be adaptable to the global climateClimate change that is currently occurring. Thus, further research is going on for improving the breedingBreeding techniques of turmeric with less usage of chemical fertilizers, higher diseaseDiseases resistance and independence of stimulants for curcuminCurcumin production. This review focuses on the advancement of current breedingBreeding practices of turmeric to date.