Salt effect on phenolics and antioxidant activities of Tunisian and Canadian sweet marjoram (Origanum majorana L.) shoots

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-141

  Baâtour, Olfa ^a,b   Mahmoudi, Hela ^a   Tarchoun, Imen ^a   Nasri, Nawel ^a   Trabelsi, Najla ^b   Kaddour, Rym ^a   Zaghdoudi, Maha ^a   Hamdawi, Ghaith ^b   Ksouri, Riadh ^b   Lachaâl, Mokhtar ^a   Marzouk, Brahim ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Origanum majorana L.; Phenolics; Salinity; Shoot

Indexed keywords

ORIGANUM MAJORANA;

2,2-DIPHENYL-1-PICRYLHYDRAZYL; 3-PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID; AMENTOFLAVONE; ANTIOXIDANT; BIFLAVONOID; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; INORGANIC SALT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PICRIC ACID; QUERCETIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

CANADA; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; ORIGANUM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; SALT TOLERANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUNISIA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIFLAVONOIDS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CANADA; FLAVONOIDS; GALLIC ACID; ORIGANUM; PHENOLS; PHENYLPROPIONATES; PICRATES; PLANT SHOOTS; QUERCETIN; SALT-TOLERANCE; SALTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TANNINS; TUNISIA;

EID: 84873286431     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.5740     Document Type: Article

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