Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7791105 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 2014 | 39 Pages |
Abstract
Eucalyptus citriodora Hook. is highly valued for its citronellal-rich essential oil (EO) extracted from its leaves. Hence, escalated EO production of eucalyptus is the need of hour. Marine polysaccharides (sodium alginate) are processed through gamma radiation of particular intensity, to obtain the irradiated sodium alginate (ISA). A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of foliar application of ISA on growth, biochemical, physiological, EO yield and composition of E. citriodora. The treatments were applied as: foliar spray of deionized water only (control), seed soaked with ISA (90 mg Lâ1) and foliar spray of ISA with 30, 60, 120 and 240 mg Lâ1. The treatment 6 (spray of ISA at 120 mg Lâ1) showed the highest value for most of the parameters studied. It also enhanced the EO content (33.3%), EO yield (86.7%), citronellal content (63.4%) and citronellal yield (205.5%) as compared to the control.
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Authors
Akbar Ali, M. Masroor A. Khan, Moin Uddin, M. Naeem, Mohd Idrees, Nadeem Hashmi, Tariq Ahmad Dar, Lalit Varshney,