Sep 14, 2015 · The new Rutgers CR9 variety catnip will provide a plant with a custom designed essential oil composition that will help make developing these products more profitable for commercial suppliers.

CR9 is the first cultivar of N. cataria in North America developed specifically for commercial agricultural production with a more upright growth habit and higher bio-mass, essential oil, and Z,E-nepetalactone yield (as a function of the relative percentage of the total essential oil yield).

To address this issue, our team has developed two catnip cultivars ‘CR3′ and ‘CR9′ for production in North America with improved traits such as vertical growing habit that allows for mechanical harvest, increased essential oil yield along with higher levels of nepetalactone isomers E,Z-nepetalactone and Z,E-nepetalactone, respectively ...

Nov 3, 2020 · The present study demonstrated that CR3 and CR9 catnip essential oils, each rich in nepetalactone, with CR3 containing two isomers (63.4% E,Z-nepatalactone and 27.5% Z,E-nepatalactone) and CR9 with only the 94.9% Z,E-nepatalactone, have significant repellent effect against C. lectularius.

The invention provides methods and compositions relating to plants, seeds, and derivatives of catnip (Nepeta cataria) ‘CR9’. Catnip cultivar ‘CR9’ is the first cultivar of Nepeta cataria in...

Methods: In this study we assessed the productivity of biomass, chemical composition of the essential oil and polyphenol accumulation of new catnip cultivars CR3 and CR9 and their hybrid, CR9×CR3, across four successive harvests.

Sep 22, 2015 · Now the Rutgers Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station has tackled catnip, coming up with a variety that is taller, heartier, and more potent. The university - which owns the patent for the plant...

The antibacterial and insect repellent activities of essential oils of novel cultivars of catnip (Nepeta cataria L. cv. CR9) and oregano (Origanum vulgare L. cv. Pierre) rich in the terpenes...

Catnip cv. CR9 offers a solution to challenges faced previously regarding catnip cultivation and essential oil production as it is a nepetalactone rich cultivar with high biomass yield and upright growth habit which is ideal for mechanical harvesting (Reichert et al., 2016; Gomes et al., 2020a).

Catnip (Nepeta cataria, Fam. Lamiaceae), an aromatic herb from southwestern Asia, is best known for causing a euphoric effect on domestic cats and other members of the feline family due to the volatile compound nepetalac-tone contained in the essential oil of the plant (Jamzad et al., 2003; McElvain et al., 1941; Waller et al., 1969).