Chemical and biological diversity in fourteen selections of four Ocimum species

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1705-1710

  Rajeswara Rao, Bhaskaruni R ^a   Kothari, Sushil K ^a   Rajput, Dharmendra K ^a   Patel, Rajendra P ^a   Darokar, Mahendra P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antibacterial and antifungal activities; Biomass and essential oil yields; Camphor and linalool; Essential oil composition; Eugenol and methyl eugenol; Methyl chavicol and methyl cinnamate; Ocimum species

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA ELEMENE; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; CINNAMIC ACID METHYL ESTER; ESSENTIAL OIL; ESTRAGOLE; EUGENOL; GERMACRENE D; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; METHYL EUGENOL; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM KILIMANDSCHARICUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM SANCTUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOMASS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG ISOLATION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM; OCIMUM KILIMANDSCHARICUM; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIODIVERSITY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OCIMUM; OILS, VOLATILE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82455184347     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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