background & aim: echinophora cinerea is a plant of the apiaceae family, which reaches to a height of 30 to 100 cm. the essential oil of echinophora cinerea contains alkaloids and flavonoids etc. phenolic composition is one of the best sources of natural antioxidants. the goal of this study is to examine the antibacterial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil of e. cinerea. experi...

in order to evaluate the effects of drought and salinity stresses on growth parameters and essential oil of lemon balm, two experiments with three replications in a randomized complete block design were applied. five levels of salinity including zero, one, two, three and four ds/m of sodium chloride solution, and five drought stress treatments including 50, 62.5, 75, 87.5 and 100% as available ...

background and objectives: drought is one of the most important factor limiting plant growth around the world and the most common environmental stress which is limited produce approximately 25% of the world's land. production of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants changes by environmental condition and also water stress is effective factor in growth and synthesis natural compounds in...

background: thymus daenensis is on e of the endemic aromatic species in iran that its essential oil is used in food and pharmaceutical industries. objective: in this study, the effects of plant growth stages and distillation methods on essential oil content and thymol percentage of this species were evaluated. methods: the aerial parts of th. daenensis were collected in three stages of plant gr...

this paper tries to survey the effective factors in creating an appropriate environment for improving advanced technologies in iranian national oil company and it offers some solutions for applying these technologies. in the beginning, the paper mentions the growing demand for oil more than its global supply in the years to come as well as the need to increase the oil reservoirs and recycling c...

BACKGROUND The potential of Origanum syriacum L. to become a cultivated crop in Lebanon rather than being harvested from the wild was investigated at the production, postharvest and economic levels. Three irrigation schemes were tested on growth parameters of cultivated oregano plants. In order to identify the most quality-preserving drying technique, air-, oven (30 °C)- and freeze-dried oregan...