Essential oil composition of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis) and peppermint (Mentha piperita) cultivars at different stages of plant growth from Kumaon region of Western Himalaya

Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-18

  Verma, R S ^a   Rahman, L ^a   Verma, R K ^a   Chauhan, A ^a   Yadav, A K ^a   Singh, A ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Crop age; Cultivars; Essential oil composition; Mentha arvensis l.; Mentha piperita l.

Indexed keywords

BETA FARNESENE; BETA PINENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GERMACRENE D; ISOMENTHOL; ISOMENTHONE; ISOPULEGOL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHOL; MENTHONE; MENTHYL ACETATE; MYRCENE; NEOMENTHOL; OCIMENE; OCTANOL; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PIPERITONE; PULEGONE; SABINENE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DISTILLATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; HARVESTING; INDIA; MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; MENTHA PIPERITA; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT GROWTH;

MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; MENTHA X PIPERITA;

EID: 77955604051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09747877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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