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In this essential book, researchers from large and small laboratories and institutions throughout Europe and the Mediterranean region explore recent developments in the selection and breeding of aromatic and medicinal plants. They take varied approaches?from traditional breeding to the use of molecular markers?and complement them with up-to-date information on biodiversity and resource conservation as well as economic, ethical, and legal considerations.
List of contents
Preface: Breeding Research on Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Conventional Breeding, Breeding for Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: General Situation and Current Results in Annual Caraway (Carum carvi L. var. annum), Combining Ability of Origanum majorana L. Hybrids: Sensorial Quality, Influence of Selection of Inbreeding on Origanum majorana L., Combining Ability of Origanum majorana L. Strains?Agronomical Traits and Essential Oil Content: Results of the Field Experiment Series in 1999, Distribution of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in Crossing Progenies of Petasites hybridus, Breeding of Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) Resistant to Fusarium Wilt Caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. basilicum, The Impact of Drought Stress and/or Nitrogen Fertilization in Some Medicinal Plants, Fertility of Echinacea angustifolia Moench and Linum usitatissimum L. After Herbicide Treatment, Seed Yields, Yield Components, and Essential Oil of Selected Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) Lines, Changes in Germination Capacity of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Taxa, Investigations on the Infraspecific Variability of Hypericum perforatum L., First Field Trials of Borage (Borago officinalis L.) in Andalusia (Southern Spain) as a Source of ?Biological? Gamma Linolenic Acid, Ontogenetic Variation Regarding Hypericin and Hyperforin Levels in Four Accessions of Hypericum perforatum L., Breeding Improvement of Laurus nobilis L. by Conventional and In vitro Propagation Techniques, Breeding for a Hypericum perforatum L. Variety Both Productive and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Tolerant, Evaluation of Spontaneous Oleander (Nerium oleander L.) as a Medical Plant, Myrtle (Myrtus communis L.) as a New Aromatic Crop: Cutivar Selection, Selection of Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) Cultivar
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Christopher B Johnson, Chlodwig Franz
