Essential oil Storage conditions affect the chemical composition in cultivated Mentha spicata

Subject Areas : Plant Physiology

Jahangir Farahbakhsh ¹ , Sharareh Najafian ² , Mehdi Hosseini Farahi ³ , Sedigheh Gholipour ⁴

1 - 1Department of Horticultural Science, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran
2 - DepartmentofAgriculture,PayameNoor University,Tehran,Iran
3 - 1Department of Horticultural Science, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran
4 - Department of Chemistry, Yasooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran.

Received: 2020-08-02 Accepted : 2020-09-05 Published : 2021-01-01

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