eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-01-05 1 1 69 70 3384 article M. K. Saxena 1 Usha Saxena 1 Archana Parmar 2 JNKVV, AICRP Safflower, College of Agriculture, Indore 452 001 (India) JNKVV, RAV College of Agriculture, Sehore (India) In Madhya Pradesh safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) cultivation could not get flourished due to its spiny nature. The All India Coordinated Research Project on Safflower, College of Agriculture, Indore Developed spineless variety JSI-7. It was expected that now safflower cultivation would reach to farmer field but it did not, because farmers are still harvesting only speed from the spineless crop. The spineless variety JSI-7 was small seeded and low yielder than spiny. Now newly developed spineless are bold seeded, short stature and good yielder of seeds and dry petal. Farmers could be harvest two economic product, seed for oil and dry petals for nature colour and herbal medicine. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol1no1/studies-on-dual-purpose-spineless-safflower-carthamus-tinctorius-l/ Safflower; spineless; spiny; dry petals