The effect of harvesting on the composition of essential oils from five varieties of Ocimum basilicum L. cultivated in the Island of Kefalonia, Greece

Plants

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Tsasi, Gerasimia ^a,b   Mailis, Theofilos ^b   Daskalaki, Artemis ^b   Sakadani, Eleni ^a   Razis, Panagis ^a   Samaras, Yiannis ^a   Skaltsa, Helen ^b  

^a IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Basil varieties; Cluster analysis; Essential oil; GC MS; Harvest

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032678845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22237747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/plants6030041     Document Type: Article

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