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Effects of spacing and harvesting time on herbage yield and quality/quantity of oil in thyme, Thymus vulgaris L.
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In this paper, the effects of plants space and time of harvesting, plant height, plant diameter, yields of dry and fresh herbage, content (%) and yield of oil, thymol and carvacrol were measured.About:
This article is published in Industrial Crops and Products.The article was published on 2004-05-01. It has received 202 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thymol & Carvacrol.read more
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Essential oils as antimicrobials in food systems – A review
TL;DR: Mechanisms of antimicrobial action, and the antimicrobial properties of plant essential oils are discussed, including their mode of action, effectiveness, synergistic effects, major components and use in foods.
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Antioxidant activity in meat treated with oregano and sage essential oils
Michael K. Fasseas,Konstantinos C. Mountzouris,Petros A. Tarantilis,Moschos G. Polissiou,George Zervas +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the antioxidant activity of porcine and bovine ground ground meat was determined using three experimental treatments, namely: control (no antioxidant), oregano (oregano essential oil 3% w/w) and sage (sage essential oil three% w)/w), and after 1, 4, 8 and 12 days of storage.
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Essential oils as potential antimicrobial agents in meat and meat products: A review
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of microbial deterioration of meat and meat products and traditional preservation methods used are first discussed followed by mode of action and scope of application of EOs for these products.
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Chemical composition, antimicrobial, antioxidant and antitumor activity of Thymus serpyllum L., Thymus algeriensis Boiss. and Reut and Thymus vulgaris L. essential oils
Milos Nikolic,Jasmina Glamočlija,Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira,Ricardo C. Calhelha,Ângela Fernandes,Tatjana Marković,Dejan Markovic,Abdulhamed Giweli,Marina Soković +8 more
TL;DR: The great potential of tested Thymus essential oils for application in oral diseases and anticancer treatments, encourage further investigation.
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Plants belonging to the genus Thymus as antibacterial agents: from farm to pharmacy
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi,Anna Marchese,Morteza Izadi,Valeria Curti,Maria Daglia,Seyed Fazel Nabavi +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarise available literature data about the in vitro antibacterial effects of the main plants belonging to the genus Thymus and provide information about cultivation, chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from these plants, and their use for medicinal purposes.
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Capillary Gas Chromatography in Essential Oil Analysis
Pat Sandra,Carlo Bicchi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss general aspects of essential oil preparation and analysis, considerations on the selection of capillary columns for the analysis, microtechniques, headspace versus classical analysis, 'fingerprints', industrial quality control, retention indices, dual channel analysis, gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy coupling, examples of artefact formation, GC-FTIR analysis, multidimensional gas chromathy.
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Cultivation and utilization of medicinal plants
C. K. Atal,B. M. Kapur +1 more
TL;DR: Before cultivating these medicinal plants in these areas, their medicinal and economic values as well as cultivation techniques need to be disseminated to farmers, forest department officials and NGOs so that they can have confidence to grow them in their respective areas.
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Responses of Maize to Plant Population Density. I. Canopy Development, Light Relationships, and Vegetative Growth
F. Tetio-Kagho,F. P. Gardner +1 more
TL;DR: Leaf area and light interception were highly concentrated at ear level, but level of light interception shifted upward with increasing PPD, which was similar at 5 and 3 h before and at solar noon for each PPD measured at ground, ear, and below-tassel levels.
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Seasonal variation in essential oil yield and composition from naturalized thymus vulgaris L. in New Zealand
TL;DR: The seasonal variation in essential oil yield and composition from naturalized Thymus vulgaris L. in Central Otago, New Zealand, was reported in this paper, where the oil yield peaked at 22.8 l/ha in December, after flowering had finished.
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Transpiration, essential oil glands, epicuticular wax and morphology of Thymus vulgaris are influenced by light intensity and water supply
TL;DR: The time for which the stomata remained open or partially open was longer for plants developed under supplemental light at low substrate water content compared with variants grown under natural light and higher soil water content.