Background: Nitrogen is the most important nutrient requirement for plants. Nitrogen supplying affected the leaf area, carbon fixation, glandular trichomes formation, ATP and NADPH content which resulted to the terpenoids biosynthesis enhancement and essential oils accumulation. Objective: This study was aimed to evaluate changes of essential oil content and components by use different levels ...

Background: Hydatidosis is a common disease of both humans and animals, resulting from infection with the larvae Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm. The aim this study was to investigate antiparasitic (protoscolicidal) activities three essential oils in vitro. Methods: This designed evaluate biochemical composition vitro effects Zataria multiflora, Origanum vulgare Mentha pulegium oils. Gas chrom...

background & aim:mentha longifolia (l.) huds is an aromatic perennial herb that belongs to the   family lamiaceae. the aim of this study was to identify chemical composition of aerial parts   (including leaf, stem and flowers) of m. longifolia collected from   (kamu mountain) isfahan province. experimental: the essential oils were extracted   using the hydrodistillation method and analysed by g...

Abstract Clinopodium serpyllifolium is a perennial medicinal plant generally used as herbal tea in folk medicine. Leaves of C. from the representative exemplars Newe Ya’ar living germplasm collection were analyzed for their polyphenolic and volatiles composition, tested antioxidant activity. The oxygenated monoterpenes pulegone (10.4–50.6%), piperitenone oxide (3.2–28.6%), (0.9–14.6%), trans -p...

Antioxidant consumption has been reported to be inversely associated with the incidence of coronary artery disease. To clarify the possible role of vitamin E and volatile oils in the prevention of atherosclerosis, the effects of these compounds on the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to oxidative modification were investigated. In this study, vitamin E and seven volatile oils “an...

Background & Aim: Different species from mint family (Lamiaceae) are used as spices and fragrance in food or as medicine against viral or microbial diseases in many countries for generation. Lamiaceae family contains 46 genus and 410 species. One of the valuable and medicinal species of this family is Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam. This species contains the essential o...

Background & Aim:Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds is an aromatic perennial herb that belongs to the   family Lamiaceae. The aim of this study was to identify chemical composition of aerial parts   (including leaf, stem and flowers) of M. longifolia collected from   (Kamu mountain) Isfahan province. Experimental: The essential oils were extrac...