Assessment on adaptation of some selected medicinal and aromatic plants to the northern parts of Turkey: Agricultural and chemical property based evaluation

 

Gulsum Yaldiz^1* and Muhittin Kulak²

 

Research Article | Published December 2014

Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Research Journal, Vol. 2(3), pp. 50-56

 

 

¹Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Abant İzzet Baysal University, 14280 Bolu, Turkey.

²Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Art, Kilis7 Aralık University, 79000 Kilis, Turkey.

 

 

*Corresponding author. E-mail: yaldizgulsum@gmail.com. 

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Studies concerned with adaptation and cultivation of the medicine and economy-based plants consumed in all countries must be conducted in order to determine the appropriate plant species demonstrating higher yield and producing potent metabolite in harmony with agro-ecological conditions of the region. In this context, an adaptation study was carried out to investigate the agricultural and oil yield performance of some medicinally and economically important plants in the northern parts of Turkey. The trials were laid out in the randomized complete block design with three replicates. Plant height (cm), branch number per plant, capsule number per plant, number of umbrella per plant, biological yield (kg/da), seed yield (kg/da), harvest index (%), fixed oil ratio (%), essential oil ratio (%) were examined for each plant. As a result, yield for each plant was as follows: Nigella sativa (96.6 kg/da), Coriandrum sativum (100.35 kg/da), Foeniculum vulgare (77.26 kg/da), Anethum graveolens (93.55 kg/da) and Trigonella foenum-graecum (93.5 kg/da).

 

Keywords: Medicinal and aromatic plants, adaptation, yield, quality.

 

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Citation: Yaldiz G, Kulak M (2014). Assessment on adaptation of some selected medicinal and aromatic plants to the northern parts of Turkey: Agricultural and chemical property based evaluation. Med. Aromat. Plant Res. J. 2(3): 50-56.

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