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- Emanuela Alice Luță
(Department of Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956 Bucharest, Romania)
- Manuela Ghica
(Department of Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956 Bucharest, Romania)
- Cerasela Elena Gîrd
(Department of Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020956 Bucharest, Romania)
Abstract
The cultivation of medicinal plants represents great necessity and topicality these days, given that the pharmaceutical industry requires high quality raw materials in large quantities. Those are used for the production of food supplements/phytomedicines/medical devices or gemmo-derivatives’ products. Starting from these premises, this present study aimed to culture common batches of different associations of medicinal plants in order to quantify the fabrication of plant products, but also to observe possible changes in their internal structure, in direct correlation with the biosynthesis of active principles. The crops were monitored in 2018–2021. It was found that in all the common crops compared to the control ones, the amount of vegetable product provided was much higher (for example, the thyme-rosemary crop produced 730 g of fresh vegetable plants, compared with 540 g in the control crop; St. John’s Wort in culture with lemon balm delivered 1934 g of vegetable product, compared with 1423 g obtained from the control crop; mint was grown with lemon balm and produced a double amount of vegetable mass compared with the control crop). The presence of numerous glandular hairs in the samples from the phytosociological groups for the species from the Lamiaceae family, could explain the difference in the volatile oil content (4 mL/100 g produced by rosemary from the thyme-rosemary crop compared with 3.6 mL/100 g from the control one; 6.6 mL/100 g generated by thyme from the thyme-rosemary crop compared with 3.6 mL/100 from the control group; 2 mL/100 g of lemon balm volatile oil from the mint-lemon balm compared with 0.6 mL/100 g). The content of other types of active principles is dependent on the culture association. From results analysis it was found that in the phytosociological groups, flavones, PCAs and total polyphenols were significantly higher compared to control ones (2.4413 ± 0.1858 g flavones expressed in rutin/100 g in the thyme dried leaves from thyme-rosemary to 1.9317 ± 0.0947 g flavones produced by the control thyme; 9.9461 ± 0.8385 g PCAs expressed in chlorogenic acid/100 g for the same sample compared with 6.9709 ± 1.4921 g produced by the control batch; 11.1911 ± 0.7959 g TPC expressed in tannic acid/100 g in the thyme dried leaves from the thyme-rosemary phytosociological crop to 6.0393 ± 0.3204 g from the control one). The obtained results can be a starting point regarding the potential associations of medicinal plants in crops, in order to obtain a qualitative and quantitative vegetal mass.
Suggested Citation
Emanuela Alice Luță & Manuela Ghica & Cerasela Elena Gîrd, 2022.
"The Initiation of a Phytosociological Study on Certain Types of Medicinal Plants,"
Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-23, February.
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RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:2:p:283-:d:751214
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