Phytotoxic activities of Mediterranean essential oils

Molecules

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 4309-4323

  De Almeida, Luiz Fernando Rolim ^a   Frei, Fernando ^a   Mancini, Emilia ^b   De Martino, Laura ^b   De Feo, Vincenzo ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Essential oils; Germination; Monoterpenes; Phytotoxicity; Seedling growth

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANGIOSPERM; ANISE; APIALES; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FENNEL; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LETTUCE; PLANT SEED; RADISH; APIACEAE; DRUG EFFECTS; FOENICULUM; LAMIACEAE; PIMPINELLA; RAPHANUS;

APIACEAE; FOENICULUM; GERMINATION; LAMIACEAE; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LETTUCE; OILS, VOLATILE; PIMPINELLA; PLANT OILS; RAPHANUS; SEEDS;

EID: 77954268483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules15064309     Document Type: Article

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