Development Of Dus Standard For Taro [Colocasia Esculenta Var. Antiquirom (L.) Schott.] Using Digital Morphometrics

Rupsanatan Mandal; Nirmal Mandal; Surajit Mitra; Archana Mukharjee; Jayanta Tarafdar

doi:10.48165/

Authors

Rupsanatan Mandal Faculty of Agriculture,Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur, West Bengal - 741 252 (India)
Nirmal Mandal Faculty of Agriculture,Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur, West Bengal - 741 252 (India)
Surajit Mitra Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur, West Bengal - 741 252 (India)
Archana Mukharjee Regional Centre of Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa - 751 019 (India)
Jayanta Tarafdar Faculty of Agriculture,Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (BCKV), Mohanpur, West Bengal - 741 252 (India)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Digital morphometrics, DUS, taro

Abstract

The leaves, tubers and other morpho-culinary characters of nine taro [Colocasia esculenta var. antiquirom (L) Schott.] cultivars were considered for development of distinct, uniform and stable (DUS) standards using digital morphometrics and computational methods besides taking help from prototypes of hand-held digital field guides and various robotic systems to bring them under IPR-related regimes. Out of 48 morpho culinary characters studied maximum were polymorphic in nature. Some cultivars possessed unique stable characters helpful for their identification. The study revealed that DUS descriptors using digital morphometrics can be used effectively for identification and grouping of taro germplasm.

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