Drying temperature effects in peppermint essential oil content and composition

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 569, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-98

  Blanco, M C S G ^a   Ming, L C ^b   Marques, M O M ^a   Bovi, O A ^a  

^a Instituto Agromico de Campinas   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drying temperatures; Essential oil yield; Mentha piperita L.; Post harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644471936     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.569.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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