Chemical composition, antioxidant, antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities of Tagetes minuta and ocimum basilicum essential oils

Food Science and Nutrition

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 146-155

  Shirazi, Mohsen Taheri ^a   Gholami, Hamid ^a   Kavoosi, Gholamreza ^a   Rowshan, Vahid ^b   Tafsiry, Asad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Fars Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources Iran   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Cytotoxic; Ocimum basilicum; Radical scavenging; Tagetes minuta

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027484651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.85     Document Type: Article

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