Investigation of genes involved in scent and color production in Rosa damascena Mill.

Rosa damascena Mill., commonly known as the King Flower, is a fragrant and important species of the Rosaceae family. It is widely used in the perfumery and pharmaceutical industries.

Optimizing an efficient ensemble approach for high-quality de novo transcriptome assembly of Thymus daenensis.

Non-erroneous and well-optimized transcriptome assembly is a crucial prerequisite for authentic downstream analyses. Each de novo assembler has its own algorithm-dependent pros and cons to handle the assembly issues and should be specifically tested for each dataset. Here, we examined efficiency of seven state-of-art assemblers on ~ 30 Gb data obtained from mRNA-sequencing of Thymus daenensis.

Morphological, molecular and phytochemical variations induced by colchicine and EMS chemical mutagens in L.

L., also known as saffron, is one of the most important medicinal and spice plants throughout the world. The plant is a rich source of apocarotenoids such as crocetin esters, picrocrocin, and safranal.

Essential oil constituents and variations in antioxidant compounds of dried summer savory ( cv. Saturn) affected by storage conditions and ammonium sulfate.

Considering the importance of spice plants and their shelf life, as affected by various factors, the current study considered Summer savory plants ( cv. Saturn) for evaluation under the application of different concentrations of ammonium sulfate (0, 40, 60, 80, and 100 kg/ha) as primary treatments. Based on the plant response, the control group and 100 kg/ha ammonium sulfate were selected as suitable treatments for storage experiments (i.

Blue Light Improves Photosynthetic Performance and Biomass Partitioning toward Harvestable Organs in Saffron ( L.).

Saffron is a valuable plant and one of the most expensive spices worldwide. Nowadays, there is a tendency to produce this crop in indoor plant production systems. However, the production of saffron is restricted by the need for the reproduction of high-quality corms.

Effects of exogenous application of citrulline on prolonged water stress damages in hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis L.): Antioxidant activity, biochemical indices, and essential oils profile.

This study examined the effects of exogenous citrulline (control, 1 and 2 mM) and water availability (100%, 50% and 25% WA) on antioxidant attributes and essential oil constituents of Hyssopus officinalis L. in two successive harvests. Hyssop tolerantly responded to water deficiency by well-promoted antioxidant enzymes (i.

Genetic diversity and chemical polymorphism of some Thymus species.

To ascertain whether there are chemical and genetic relationships among some Thymus species and also to determine correlation between these two sets of data, the essential-oil composition and genetic variability of six populations of Thymus including: T. daenensis ČELAK. (two populations), T.

Genetic properties of milk thistle ecotypes from Iran for morphological and flavonolignans characters.

The aim of present study was to investigate the genetic variation within and between 32 milk thistle ecotypes collected from northern (23 accessions) and southern (9 accessions) regions of Iran along with two introduced varieties, CN seeds and Budakalaszi, for morphological and flavonolignans properties. The two collections were assessed at separate field experiments. MANOVA for all the morphological traits showed significant difference between ecotypes.