Drought as the most important abiotic stress has deleterious effects on plants. Developing drought tolerant varieties can help produce plants in a sustainable way. This study was conducted to identify drought tolerant and drought sensitive thyme species including Thymus vulgaris, T. vulgaris (origin: Spain), T. carmanicus, T. daenensis and T. kotschyanus and to study the mechanism used by them ...

The collection of plants grown in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden is an inexhaustible source plant resources. One such resource species Thymus vulgaris L. Being a perennial, traditionally used as aromatic, essential oil and medicinal plant. Thyme herb described raw material many pharmacopoeias. Essential phenolic compounds, which are considered main active ingredients this material, antiviral, an...

Thymus vulgaris L. is an emblematic species of the Mediterranean tradition. As a crop, this has been spread wherever possible by man around World. Often escaped from cultivations, defining its natural environment and limits range very much complicated as these have greatly altered influenced human presence, in positive or negative way. In addition to ecology biogeography studies, we carried out...

Background and objectives: Despite the vast production of new antibiotics in the last three decades, resistance to these drugs by microorganisms has increased and essential oils (EOs) have been recognized to possess antimicrobial properties. Methods:  In the present study, EOs obtained from aerial parts of Thymus vulgaris L., Lavandula angustifolia Mill., Rosmarinus offici...