Bees are the most important pollinators of agricultural plants. The decline bee colonies is caused by a multitude factors which diseases, pesticides, and climate change seem to be important. Losses can huge when several act together. In recent years, there has been growing interest in use alternative sources such as medicinal plants form extracts or essential oils. purpose our research was eval...

BACKGROUND Plant allelochemicals released into the soil can significantly impact the performance of associated plant species thereby affecting their competitive ability. Soil microbes can potentially affect the interaction between plant and plant chemicals by degrading the allelochemicals. However, most often plant-plant chemical interactions are studied using filter paper bioassays examining t...

HIGHLIGHTS • A strain of Penicillium citreosulfuratum was isolated from corroded metal. The fungus formed biofilm on the surface aluminum wire. This grew in presence 50 mM Al3+ liquid medium. Thyme, oregano, and melaleuca essential oils inhibited this growth.

Background: The application of phytogenic additives in the form of essential oils have attracted considerable attention in poultry industry. OBJECTIVES: An experiment was conducted to evaluate effects of the blends of essential oils (EO) isolated from some medicinal plants including savory, thyme, fennel and rosemary on performance, blood metabolites, intestinal microflora, and meat quality of...

post-harvest losses particularly due to fungal invasions, is a major factor in limiting the shelf life of many fruits and vegetables. in order to study the effects of essential oils of thyme (thymus kotschyanus), basil (ocimum basilicum) and rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis) on control of grey mold (botrytis cinerea) disease in pear, a series of in vitro and in vivo (during cold storage of pear...

objective: despite toxic effects of some essential oils, their use is not under control. with a view to increasing trend of utilisation of herbal products, some biological aspects of thymus daenensis are repoted here for the first time. materials and methods: antimicrobial properties using disk diffusion and dilution tests, nitric oxide radical scavenging by marcocci et al method and cytotoxic...

Essential oils are one of the most important natural products derived from plants, due to their various biological properties and their medicinal and nutritional uses. This chapter provides an overview of several different aspects relating to essential oils including a his‐ torical perspective, the uses of essential oils, their main sources and antifungal activity, their bioactive single consti...

A comparative study was made between the acaricidal activities of some essential oils: rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), lavandula (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.), thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) and ziziphora (Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam.) on the important mite pest, Tetranychus cinnabarinus Boisduval, the carmine spider mite, oncut roses during 2010-2012. The sublethal concentrations of ziziph...

background & aim: drought stress, as a main abiotic stress, has a significant influence on growth and metabolic activities of plant species. in this study, the influence of reduced irrigation on dry herbage, essential oil yield, and chemical components of two thyme species were investigated. experimental: this study was done in an experimental greenhouse, i.a.u., shahrekord branch, iran at...

Background & Aim: Drought stress, as a main abiotic stress, has a significant influence on growth and metabolic activities of plant species. In this study, the influence of reduced irrigation on dry herbage, essential oil yield, and chemical components of two thyme species were investigated. Experimental: This study was done in an experimental greenhouse, I.A.U., Shahrekord Branch, Iran at 201...