Shailesh Tripathi

Medicinal Coleus: a Remunerative Crop of Indian Origin Shailesh Tripathi

Because of the exclusive presence of forskolin, it enjoys the current recognition of its status a crop of a medicinal importance internationally as compared to the extensive chemical investigations carried out in this species cultivation aspect and cultivation studies have received scant attention. There for to encourage the commercial cultivation of this highly remunerative crop in Uttarakhand state, there is an urgent need to standardize the optimum plant density for maximizing the tuber and essential oil yield.