Abstract: Gloriosa superba is a medicinal climber, its seeds
and tubers contain valuable alkaloids viz., colchicine and colchicoside as the
major constituents, which are used to treat gout and rheumatism. Eighteen accessions
of Gloriosa superba collected from various geographical regions of the
important Gloriosa growing states viz., Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
were evaluated for total sugar, starch, protein, total phenol, peroxidase, catalase
and poly phenol oxidase at Horticulture College and Research Institute, Tamil
Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore to assess its suitability for seed
yield as well as tolerance to leaf blight. The accessions exhibited remarkable
variations for all the traits studied. The maximum peroxidase, catalase and
minimum poly phenol oxidase were observed in GS 15 while GS 12, recorded the
highest total sugar content. The accession GS 15 excelled in the accumulation
of starch, soluble protein and total phenol in tuber and thus can be utilized
for extraction of colchicine and colchicoside.
R. Chitra and K. Rajamani, 2010. Assessment of Different Glory Lily (Gloriosa superba L.) Accessions for Biochemical Traits. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant, 4: 21-25.
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