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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Crop and Product Physiology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1540520
This article is part of the Research Topic Ecometabolomics of Crop Responses to Climate Change: Acclimation, Alleviation, and Resilience View all 4 articles
Does Photoselective Netting Influence Yield, Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oils in Cultivated Sage?
Provisionally accepted
Zoran Svetislav Ilic 1*
Lidija Milenkovic 1 Ljiljana Stanojevic 2 Ljubomir Sunic 1 Aleksandra Milenkovic 2 Ljubomir Šunić 1 Jelena Stanojević 2 Dragan Cvetković 2- 1 University of Pristina, Mitrovica, Serbia
- 2 University of Niš, Niš, Southern and Eastern Serbia, Serbia
Yield, chemical profile and antioxidant activity of sage (Salvia officinalis L.) essential oils (SEOs) isolated from shaded (pearl, red and blue color nets) or non-shaded plants have been investigated.Analysis of the results can be seen a slightly higher amount of sage essential oil (SEO) from the shaded leaves samples, with minor exceptions. The highest yield of SEO was obtained from the samples cultivated under the blue photo-selective nets (1.97 mL/100 g p.m.). A total of 38 different components were identified in sage and divided into 7 groups. The main components of SEO were cis-thujone (32.9-35.2%), camphor (19.0-25.6%), trans-thujone (8.6-13.1%) and 1,8-cineole (9.4-11.0%).The strong antioxidant activity of all tested samples showed SEO from shaded sage leaves grown under the blue photoselective net for the all incubation times (20.00-37.28 mL/100 g p.m.).These researches confirmed that sage responded positively to blue light shading through increased production of secondary metabolic products such as EOs.
Keywords: Salvia officinalis L., Essential oil, GC/MS analysis, yield, composition, antioxidant activity
Received: 05 Dec 2024; Accepted: 27 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ilic, Milenkovic, Stanojevic, Sunic, Milenkovic, Šunić, Stanojević and Cvetković. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zoran Svetislav Ilic, University of Pristina, Mitrovica, Serbia
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