Potential activity of basil plants as a source of antioxidants and anticancer agents as affected by organic and bio-organic fertilization

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-127

  Taie, Hanan Anwar Aly ^a   Salama, Zeinab Abd El Rahman ^a   Radwan, Samir ^b  

^a Plant Biochemistry Department NRC   (Egypt)

^b Agricultural Microbiology Department   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anticancer; Antioxidant; Flavonoids; Ocimum basilicum; Organic and bioorganic fertilization; Phenolics

Indexed keywords

OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM;

EID: 77954077565     PISSN: 0255965X     EISSN: 18424309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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