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DOMESTICATION AND DETERMINATION OF YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS AND ESSENTIAL OIL CO NTENT OF WILD MENTHA SPECIES GROWN IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION

Saliha Kırıcı, Mensure Özgüven

Abstract

To examine the potential yield and the yield components of Mentha species and ecotypes occurring wildly in the Mediteffanean region, seven Mentha species, three M spicata L. ssp. spicata, two M longifoha (L.) Hudson ssp. typhoides var. typhoides and two Mentha xpiperita L. were collected and evaluated. Later, they were grown and the fresh and dry herbage yields, dry leaf yield, essential oil content and yields of leaf were determined. Most of the wild Mentha species had higher essential oil contents than those of pharmacopoeia. The results showed that wild meniha species and ecotypes were valuable material for high herbage yield and oil content.

Keyword: potential yield ,Mentha species. ,

Effects of Different Water Stress Levels on Biomass Yield and Agronomic Traits of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Varieties under Semi-Arid Conditio

Erdal GONULAL, Suleyman SOYLU, Mehmet SAHIN

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted in the Wielkopolska region at the Gorzyń Research Station, Poland (52.34°N, 15.54°E) in Central Europe. The study was conducted over a 3-year period (2017, 2018, 2019) as a two-factorial design with four replications in the RCBD. The aim of the research was to determine the effect of the cultivar (‘Bolero’, ‘Tytan’) and the inoculation (Nitragina–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora I–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora II–soil inoculation, HiStick® Lupin–seeds inoculation) on plant development, seeds chemical composition and yielding of narrow-leaved lupin. The weather conditions and experimental factors significantly influenced on productivity of narrow-leaved lupin ‘Tytan’. Drought during the growing season reduced seeds and protein yields. After inoculation of HiStck the seeds yield was significantly greater by 12.4% (p < 0.01) and the protein yield after application of Nitroflora I or HiStick by 13.9% (p < 0.01) and 19.2% (p < 0.01), respectively. Correlation coefficients showed strong relations between number of pods and seeds per plant in both cultivars regardless of the inoculation variant, however the strongest relations in both cultivar were proved on HiStick treatment.
Keyword: Biological nitrogen fixation, chemical composition, legumes, protein efficiency, yielding