The antimicrobial and antiplasmid activities of essential oils (orange oil, eucalyptus oil, fennel oil, geranium oil, juniper oil, peppermint oil, rosemary oil, purified turpentine oil, thyme oil, Australian tea tree oil) and of menthol, the main component of peppermint oil, were investigated. The antimicrobial activities were determined on the Gram (+) Staphylococcus epidermidis and the Gram (...

Sunil Kumar 1,2 , Manisha Mangal 3 , A K Dhawan 4 and Narender Singh 2 * Centre for Plant Biotechnology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University New Campus, Hisar 125 004, India Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136 119, India Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana 141 001, India CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Regional Research Station, ...

Fluorescence spectra of some common vegetable oils, including olive oil, olive residue oil, refined olive oil, corn oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and cotton oil, were examined in their natural state, with a wavelength of 360 nm used as excitation radiation. All oils studied, except extra virgin olive oil, exhibited a strong fluorescence band at 430-450 nm. Extra virgin olive oil gave a diffe...