Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Surya D, Rajamani K, Suresh J and Uma D

Abstract:
Clitoria ternatea L. commonly called as Bluepea is a tropical flower, that has been used worldwide as an ornamental flower, and is traditionally used as natural food colorant benefiting the blue color, that is due to anthocyanin compounds. Anthocyanin has been identified as a functional molecule because of its antioxidant potential. It has two major flower colors viz., blue and white. Blue single layered, blue double-layered, and White single layered seeds were collected and sown to observe their morphological characterization and for anthocyanin assessment. Based on the study, it was observed that blue flowers possess anthocyanin but the highest was found in Double layered flowers (51.90 mg/l). Blue double layered showed higher plant height on measuring at 60 DAS, larger flower length, wider width, heavier flower weight, and higher total phenol content (38.92 mg GAE/g).white flower produced longer leaf length and pod length, wider pod width, heavier pod weight. The blue single produced heavier leaf weight, seed weight and the highest total chlorophyll (2.58 mg/g).