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IMPACT OF SEASON AND HARVEST FREQUENCY ON BIOMASS AND ESSENTIAL OIL YIELDS OF ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA CULTIVATED IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2009

HEDI MIGHRI ,
AHMED AKROUT ,
JOSEPH CASANOVA ,
FELIX TOMI  and
MOHAMED NEFFATI
HEDI MIGHRI*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Pastorale, Institut des Régions Arides, Km 22.5, Route du Djorf-4119 Médenine, Tunisie
AHMED AKROUT
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Pastorale, Institut des Régions Arides, Km 22.5, Route du Djorf-4119 Médenine, Tunisie
JOSEPH CASANOVA
Affiliation:
Université de Corse, Equipe chimie et biomasse, UMR CNRS 6134, Route des Sanguinaires, 20000 Ajaccio, France
FELIX TOMI
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Pastorale, Institut des Régions Arides, Km 22.5, Route du Djorf-4119 Médenine, Tunisie
MOHAMED NEFFATI
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Pastorale, Institut des Régions Arides, Km 22.5, Route du Djorf-4119 Médenine, Tunisie
*
†Corresponding author: mighrih@yahoo.fr
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Summary

Artemisia herba-alba Asso has been successfully cultivated in the Tunisian arid zone. However, information regarding the effects of the harvest frequency on its biomass and essential oil yields is very limited. In this study, the effects of three different frequencies of harvesting the upper half of the A. herba-alba plant tuft were compared. The harvest treatments were: harvesting the same individual plants at the flowering stage annually; harvesting the same individual plants at the full vegetative growth stage annually and harvesting the same individual plants every six months. Statistical analyses indicated that all properties studied were affected by the harvest frequency. Essential oil yield, depended both on the dry biomass and its essential oil content, and was significantly higher from plants harvested annually at the flowering stage than the other two treatments. The composition of the β- and α-thujone-rich oils did not vary throughout the experimental period.

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Research Article
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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 499 - 508
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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