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https://doi.org/10.2478/v10007-012-0019-9

Culture conditions and salt effects on essential oil composition of sweet marjoram (Origanum majorana) from Tunisia

OLFA BAÂTOUR ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
IMEN TARCHOUNE ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
HELA MAHMOUDI ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
WISSAL ABIDI ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
RYM KADDOUR ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
GHAITH HAMDAOUI ; Laboratoire des Substances Bioactives, Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj-Cedria, BP 901, 2050 Hammam-lif, Tunisie
MOUHIBA BEN NASRI-AYACHI ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
MOHTAR LACHAÂL ; Unité de Physiologie et Biochimie de la Tolérance au Sel des Plantes, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Campus Universitaire, 2092 Tunis, Tunisie
BRAHIM MARZOUK ; Laboratoire des Substances Bioactives, Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj-Cedria, BP 901, 2050 Hammam-lif, Tunisie

Abstract

O. majorana shoots were investigated for their essential oil (EO) composition. Two experiments were carried out; the first on hydroponic medium in a culture chamber and the second on inert sand in a greenhouse for 20 days. Plants were cultivated for 17 days in hydroponic medium supplemented with NaCl 100 mmol L1. The results showed that the O. majorana hydroponic medium offered higher essential oil yield than that from the greenhouse. The latter increased significantly in yield (by 50 %) under saline constraint while it did not change in the culture chamber. Under greenhouse conditions and in the absence of salt treatment, the major constituents were terpinene-4-ol and trans-sabinene hydrate. However, in the culture chamber, the major volatile components were cis-sabinene hydrate and terpinene-4-ol. In the presence of NaCl, new compounds appeared, such as eicosane, spathulenol, eugenol, and phenol. In addition, in the greenhouse, with or without salt, a very important change of trans-sabinene hydrate concentration in EO occurred, whereas in the culture chamber change appeared in cis-sabinene hydrate content.

Keywords

Origanum majorana; greenhouse; culture chamber; salt; yield; terpinene-4-ol

Hrčak ID:

78870

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/78870

Publication date:

30.6.2012.

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