H. Zeinali; H. Hosseini; M.H. Shirzadi
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Mint (Mentha piperita L.), belonging to Labiatae family, is one of the most important plants, which is used widely in terms of pharmaceutical, food and health. Essential oils and compounds are important components of the plant and are severely affected by agricultural agents. In this study, the effects ...
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Mint (Mentha piperita L.), belonging to Labiatae family, is one of the most important plants, which is used widely in terms of pharmaceutical, food and health. Essential oils and compounds are important components of the plant and are severely affected by agricultural agents. In this study, the effects of nitrogen fertilizer and harvesting time on yield and yield components, essential oil and menthol were studied. A split-plot design with three replications was used. The measured traits included leaf length, leaf width, plant height, fresh weight per square meter in the first and second harvest, fresh weight of 100 leaves, essential and oil menthol of the first second harvest, shoot yield and essential oil yield per hectare. Variance analysis results showed that different levels of nitrogen and harvesting time had a significant effect on all traits except for leaf length. The interaction of nitrogen and harvesting time showed a significant difference for all traits except leaf length and width. Mean comparison of traits showed that the plant height, fresh weight per square meter, fresh weight of 100 leaves, essential oil of the first harvest, menthol of the first and second harvest, shoot yield per hectare and essential oil yield increased with increasing of nitrogen intake. Mean comparison of different harvesting times showed that the highest shoot yield and essential oil yield were obtained at budding stage. The interaction between different levels of nitrogen fertilizer and harvesting time also showed that the highest shoot yield per hectare was obtained by the application of 200 kilograms of nitrogen fertilizer per hectare at budding stage. The highest amount of menthol was obtained at consumption level of 300 kg nitrogen fertilizer per hectare and at 50 % flowering. In addition, according to the obtained results, essential oil percentage of the second harvests showed a significant decreasing trend. Overall, results showed that the highest fresh yield per hectare and essential oil were obtained at budding stage and consumption level of 200 kg/ha nitrogen fertilizer.
N. Heidari; M. Pouryousef; A. Tavakkoli; J. Saba
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To study the effect of drought stress and harvesting date on yield and essential oil production of Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), a field experiment was conducted at College of Agriculture, University of Zanjan during spring of 2010. The experiment was conducted as a factorial based on complete randomized ...
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To study the effect of drought stress and harvesting date on yield and essential oil production of Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.), a field experiment was conducted at College of Agriculture, University of Zanjan during spring of 2010. The experiment was conducted as a factorial based on complete randomized block design with three replications. The effects of water stress in three levels including control, drought stress at flowering and grain filling stages and two harvesting dates including harvest at hard dough and maturity stages were investigated. The results showed that the effect of drought stress on seed yield, total dry matter, number of umbrella in plant, 1000-seed weight, harvest index, essential oil percentage and essential oil yield was significant (p≤0.05). Majority of the mentioned traits except essential oil percentage significantly decreased (p≤0.05) under drought stress conditions but essential oil percentage increased. So the highest grain yield (622 kg/ha) and essential oil yield (20.95 kg/ha) were obtained in control treatment (full irrigation). The results also showed that the effects of harvest date on seed yield, 1000-seed weight, total dry matter, essential oil percentage and harvest index were was significant (p≤0.01). The highest seed yield (501 kg/ha) and essential oil percentage (3.85) were obtained in hard dough and maturity stages respectively.
R. Omidbaigi; F. Fattahi; F. Fattahi; Gh. Karimzadeh
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Lemon thyme (Thymus× citriodorus (Pers.) Schreb) is a perennial sub shrub medicinal plant belonging to the Lamiaceae (Labiatae) family. This plant is a hybrid between Thymus vulgaris and Thymus pulegioides. It has been used as a diaphoretic and for bronchitis. The oil has been found to possess ...
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Lemon thyme (Thymus× citriodorus (Pers.) Schreb) is a perennial sub shrub medicinal plant belonging to the Lamiaceae (Labiatae) family. This plant is a hybrid between Thymus vulgaris and Thymus pulegioides. It has been used as a diaphoretic and for bronchitis. The oil has been found to possess antimicrobial and antifungal activity. This study aims to determine the best harvest time of Lemon Thyme (Thymus × citriodorus) for maximum herbal yield and quantity of essential oil. This research was done at the Botanical Garden of Zardband Company located in the northern Tehran, Iran. Aerial parts of 4-year-old plants were harvested from 10 centimeters of land at 4 stages including: before flowering, beginning of flowering, full flowering and fruit set in the beginning of June to the end of July and then were air dried in the shade. Harvest time had a significant effect on fresh and dry weight of aerial parts in 0.1% probability level. According to the results maximum amount of fresh and dry weight of aerial parts of T× citriodorus plant were obtained from full flowering and fruit set stages. Based on the results harvest time had no significant effect on the essential oil of T× citriodorus. Although the highest essential oil content (2.21%) was extracted at beginning of flowering stage but there was no significant difference among different phonological stages. In conclusion, more suitable time for harvesting of T×citriodorus to achieve the maximum yield of essential oil production is at fruit set stage.
