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Showing papers on "Nigella damascena published in 2012"


01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The various (sub)species within the Nigella arvensis complex are treated as one single species – a rather strong simplification when consid ering the results obtained by Strid (1970) or Bittkau/Comes (2005; 2008), but sufficient for this paper.
Abstract: era in the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family: it com prises only about 15 species if considered in the wid er sense, thus including the sister taxa Garidella and Komaroffia (Zohary 1983; Donmez /Mutlu 2004). In this study, we also treat the various (sub)species within the Nigella arvensis complex as one single species – a rather strong simplification when consid ering the results obtained by Strid (1970) or Bittkau/Comes (2005; 2008), but sufficient for our pur pose in this paper. All members of the genus Nigella are therophytes (annuals that overwinter as seeds) with a short life cycle, requiring open habitats to flourish. This makes several of them occur frequently in anthropogenic ecosystems. As an example, the well-known orna mental species Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist) can nowadays be observed as a rapid colonizer of fallow land around the Mediterranean. Taxa from the Nigella arvensis complex have played a role in the segetal vegetation of Europe’s agriculture since at least the Late Iron Age (

18 citations


01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: Foliar spray, black cumin species and their interactions had a significant effects on the growth characters, fixed oil and fatty acids contents of both Nigella sativa and Nigella damascena plants.
Abstract: Field experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of fertilizer foliar spray treatments on the growth, fixed oil and fatty acids contents of Nigella sativa and Nigella damascena plants. Foliar spray, black cumin species and their interactions had a significant effects on the growth characters, fixed oil and fatty acids contents of both Nigella sativa and Nigella damascena.

9 citations