Herbage Yield and Essential Oil Quality of Three Cultivars of Sage (Salvia Officinalis L.) Grown in Two Italian Environments

Effect of Different Planting Locations in Egypt on Salvia Fruticosa Mill. Plants

“…Similar results were obtained by Mastro et al (2006), Zawislak (2006) and Hückstädt et al (2013) on common sage (Salvia officinalis). On cultivated wild three-lobed sage plants, Putievsky et al (1986) found that from the second year in spring the essential oil content was quite low.…”

“…Kintzios (2003), on wild Salvia fruticosa plants, reported that the plants were affected by the mean annual temperature and the total annual sunshine at the different growing locations. Mastro et al (2006), Zawislak (2006) and Hückstädt et al (2013) found that, the interactive effects of light with temperature play an important role on plant growth of Salvia officinalis. Also, these results are in harmony with the earlier publications on cultivation of wild three-lobed sage plants by Putievsky et al (1986), who found that the fresh matter yield in the first year of growth increased in each harvest, but from the second year there was a special pattern.…”

Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizae on plant growth, essential oil production and phosphorus uptake of Salvia officinalis L.

“…The mean essential oil concentration for all treatments was 1.03% although the best results were recorded in the Symbivit treatment (1.23%) (Table 2). Similarly, in the literature, the oil content of sage oscillated around 1.5% (De Mastro et al, 2006;Menghini et al, 2013) caused by different environmental conditions and harvest times. Earlier research on S. officinalis by Nell et al, (2009) showed neither AM inoculation using Symbivit, G. mosseae and G. intraradices or P application significantly changed the EO yields, although other Lamiaceae species, Mentha arvensis (Freitas et al, 2004), Ocimum basilicum (Copetta et al, 2006;Zolfaghari et al, 2013) and different Origanum species (Khaosaad et al, 2006;Tarraf et al, 2015), demonstrated consistent results regarding the increased oil quantity in favour of inoculation using AMF.…”

“…Salvia officinalis L. is the most widespread species of the Lamiaceae family (Avato et al, 2005), mainly found in Mediterranean areas (Menghini et al, 2013;De Mastro et al, 2006). Its biomass before flowering (European Pharmacopoeia, 2008) has been extensively used not only in food processing as a spice but also in pharmaceutical preparations showing a broad range of biological and medicinal activities (Menghini et al, 2013).…”