Two popular cultivars of tuberose (Agave amica (Medik.) Theide and Govaerts syn. Polianthes tuberosa L.) from the family Asparagaceae, widely cultivated for floricultural purposes are ,'Calcutta Single' (CS) 'Calcutta Double' (CD). It was evidenced that CS flowers emit intense scent volatiles as compared to CD flowers, while retained higher contents internal pool than flowers. Such contrasting ...

Great advances have been made in our understanding of the phylogeny and classification of Agavaceae in the last 20 years. In older systems Agavaceae were paraphyletic due to overemphasis of ovary position or habit. Discovery of a unique bimodal karyotype in Agave and Yucca eventually led to a reexamination of concepts and relationships in all the lilioid monocots, which continues to the present...

The present investigation on the effect of plant spacing and foliar nutrition growth physiological parameters tuberose (Polianthes L.) cultivar Prajwal was carried out in Department Floriculture Landscape Architecture, HC&RI, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Nadu. experiment designed following principle factorial randomized block design with four spacings (S1-25 x 25, S2- 15 20,S...