background & aim: secondary metabolites with bioactive and functional properties in essence of aromatic plants can be useful for improvement of quality and persistence of food as natural preservative.  the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial of essential oils of some of the medicinal plants collected from chaharmahal va bakhtiari province, iran. experimental: the e...

To study the effect of chemical and biological fertilizers on growth and essential oil content of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.), the present work was conducted in 2012-2013 at the experimental field of Alborz Research Station of the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Karaj, Iran. The experiment was conducted in factorial in the form of a randomized complete block design wit...

todays, essential oils from aromatic plants have been qualified as natural antioxidants and proposed as potential substitutes of synthetic antioxidants in food products. in this research chemical compositions and antioxidant activity of artimisia essential oil on oxidative stability of frying oil were analyzed. essential oil was extracted by hydro distillation and its chemical composition was d...

abstract       background and objective: the aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition, antibacterial and antifungal effects of thymus vulgaris and cuminum cyminum essential oils against foodborne pathogens and candida species in vitro.       methods: the essential oils were extracted from the aerial parts of thymus vulgaris and dried cuminum cyminum seeds using a clevenger ap...

In this study, some properties and antioxidant capacity of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicholus) by-product protein films with added 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% of thyme essential oil were investigated. The films with thyme essential oil had higher elongation at break, water vapour permeability and oxygen permeability, lower solubility and tensile strength than control film (p<0.05). The incorporation of thy...

in order to investigate the effect of different levels of cycosel and naphthalene acetic acid on some vegetative traits and on essential oil yield from rose-scented geranium (pelargonium graveolens heritier), an experiment was conducted in 2008 in the research greenhouse of horticulture department of zanjan university. the study was arranged as a factorial experiment, based upon a randomized co...

background the increased incidence of fungal resistance has necessitated the need to search for new antifungal agents. objective the main objectives of the present study were to investigate the effectiveness of the essential oil of eucalyptus camaldulensis on dermatophytes growth and to formulate and characterize a liposomal gel loaded with the essential oil. materials and methods the essential...