effect of harvest times on quantity (morphological) and quality characteristics of thymus daenensis celak. in isfahan

background & aim: deanaie thyme (thymus daenensis celak.), a member of the lamiaceae family.  thymus in one of the most important medicinal and aromatic plants that was used in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics hygienic industries in most of developed countries. recent studies have showed that thyme have strong antibacterial, antifungal, spasmolytic and antioxidant activities. experimental: this experiment was done in a random block design with three replications conducted in field of islamic azad university, khorasgan (isfahan) 2010. treatment phonological stages such as: before flowering stage; at beginning of flowering stage; 50% flowering stage; at full flowering stage and at fruit set stage results & discussion: the results obtained in our study, showed that effects phonological stages had very significant effect (p