The objective of the present research was to develop vacuum packaging incorporated with Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil treatment of fresh chicken breast meat. For this purpose, fresh chicken’s meat breast samples were divided into three groups. First group was kept as a control group with air packaging, others one was with vacuum packaging of samples and last one group was treated with...

s:1381:"Background: Studies show that Salvia officinalis administration can influence reproductive functions in animals. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Salvia officinalis extract on serum levels of testosterone and testes tissue differentiation in male rats. Materials and Methods: Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control, normal saline, and Salvia officinal...

BACKGROUND Herbal quality is strongly influenced by harvest time. It is therefore one of crucial factors that should be well respected by herbal producers when optimizing cultivation techniques, so that to obtain herbal products of high quality. In this work, we paid attention on one of common used Chinese herbals, Cyathula officinalis Kuan. According to previous studies, its quality may be rel...

Terpene synthases are responsible for the biosynthesis of the complex chemical defense arsenal of plants and microorganisms. How do these enzymes, which all appear to share a common terpene synthase fold, specify the many different products made almost entirely from one of only three substrates? Elucidation of the structure of 1,8-cineole synthase from Salvia fruticosa (Sf-CinS1) combined with ...

Two field experiments were conducted in Aly Mubark experimental Farm in sandy soil at El-Bustan Sandy soil irrigated by drip irrigation, during 2003 and 2004 seasons. The experiments aimed to study the effect of three irrigation treatments with three different kinds of fertilizers and its concentration on sage growth, yield, essential oil yield and components, macro-nutrients content in dry her...

Abstract. In this work, the chemical composition, antioxidant and antifungal activities of Juniperus phoenicea Salvia officinalis essential oils (Eos) were evaluated. The Gas Chromatography-Mass spectrometry (GC-MS) identification S. Eo revealed predominance cis-chrysanthenyl acetate (64.82 %), α- thujone (14.7 %). main compounds J. oil α-Pinene (64.4 %) δ-3-Carene (7.02 antibacterial activity ...