Author(s):

Sandhya S, Jegadeeswari V, Shoba N and Jeyakumar P

Abstract: Water deficit conditions hinder plant growth and development leading to diminished crop productivity. However, improving the crop productivity is need of the time to sustain the food security under ever increasing world population. Climate change altered the hydrological cycle which limit the water source for irrigation. Curry leaf (Murraya koenigii) is an important culinary plant of Indian origin, mainly grown for leaf production. It is a water loving plant and cannot withstand water deficit condition which ultimately affects the leaf production. In this regard, grafting studies was carried out in curry leaf as a new innovative strategy with drought tolerant rootstocks to increase the leaf production under water deficit condition. Cleft grafting method was followed in this study. Senkambu, a popular cultivar of curry leaf was used as scion and curry leaf wild type, woodapple, orange jasmine and Bael were used as rootstocks. Among these four rootstock, curry leaf wild type recorded the highest graft success percentage (66) followed by wood apple (16) and orange jasmine (6). Bael showed 0% of success percentage. Hence, the success percentage of curry leaf wild type has to be increased through altering the environmental conditions and can be further exploited.

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