Biomass yield potential of Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum L.) in European conditions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F23%3A00580159" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/23:00580159 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00027006:_____/23:10176766
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669023001292" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669023001292</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2023.116365" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.indcrop.2023.116365</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Biomass yield potential of Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum L.) in European conditions
Original language description
Ocimum sanctum L., commonly known as holy basil, tulsi or tulasi, is a medicinal plant that offers many industrial uses in medicine, cosmetics and the food industry. Recently, the interest has risen in good-quality biomass from this plant. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine an optimum density of O. sanctum vegetationnwhen grown in Central Europe in order to achieve the highest possible yield of the above-ground biomass. The following were assessed as criteria of quality of the obtained biomass: the content and composition of the essential oil for O. sanctum vegetation with the highest yield, and the content of rosmarinic acid as an importantnrepresentative of polyphenolic compounds providing a high industrial potential. The yield characteristics were studied in two localities and in two years for three spacing values, from the most dense (10 ×15 cm) to an intermediate (15 ×25 cm) and sparse (20 ×35 cm) spacing. It was found that two good-quality harvests could be obtained in the temperate zone (the first one at the end of June and the second one in the middle of August). As we found out, a dense spacing of 10 × 15 cm provides a significantly higher yield compared to spacings of 15 ×n25 cm or 20 × 35 cm, i.e. the average yield was 1.67 kg.m-2 of fresh biomass for the first harvest and 3.72 kg.m-2 of fresh biomass for the second harvest. The dense spacing can thus be expected to provide a potential annual average yield of 54,057 kg.ha-1 of fresh biomass or 5963 kg.ha-1 of dry biomass. As for the dense spacing, thenharvested biomass was also of good quality. It contained about 1% essential oil with a major proportion of linalool (34–39%) and estragole (22–26%), as well as rosmarinic acid, whose average content ranged from 1.05 mg.g-1 to 6.34 mg.g-1. Therefore, a dense spacing of 10 × 15 cm can be recommended for O. sanctum growing in the temperate zone.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20101 - Civil engineering
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/QK1910103" target="_blank" >QK1910103: Czech Herbs for New Foods Promoting Population Health</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Industrial Crops and Products
ISSN
0926-6690
e-ISSN
1872-633X
Volume of the periodical
194
Issue of the periodical within the volume
APR
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
116365
UT code for WoS article
001190779000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147549187