caa a22 4500 445841613 CHVBK 20180317145346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10725-011-9588-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10725-011-9588-8 Triacontanol-mediated regulation of growth and other physiological attributes, active constituents and yield of Mentha arvensis L [Elektronische Daten] [M. Naeem, M. Khan, Moinuddin,, Mohd. Idrees, Tariq Aftab] Triacontanol (TRIA) has been realized as a potent plant growth promoting substance for a number of agricultural and horticultural crops. Out of a large number of essential oil bearing plants, mint (Mentha arvensis L.) constitutes the most important source of therapeutic agents used in the alternative systems of medicine. The mint plant has marvelous medicinal properties. In view of enhancing growth, yield and quality of this medicinally important plant, a pot experiment was conducted according to simple randomized block design. The experiment was aimed at studying the effect of four concentrations of TRIA (10−0, 10−7, 10−6 and 10−5M) on the performance of mint with regard to growth and other physiological attributes, crop yield and quality attributes and the yield and contents of active constituents of the plant. The growth and other physiological parameters as well as yield and quality attributes were studied at 100 and 120 DAP. The foliar application of TRIA at 10−6M concentration significantly enhanced most of the growth and other physiological attributes, crop herbage yield and the yield and content of active constituents (menthol, l-methone, isomenthone and menthyl acetate) of mint at both the stages. However, the next higher concentration of TRIA (10−5M) exhibited slightly negative effect and did not further increase the values of the attributes studied, but it proved significantly better than the control. Application of TRIA significantly enhanced the yield and content of all the active constituents determined by GLC technique. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Photosynthesis nationallicence CA nationallicence Active constituents nationallicence TRIA nationallicence Mentha arvensis nationallicence Naeem M. Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut Khan M. Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut Moinuddin, Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut Idrees Mohd Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut Aftab Tariq Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut Plant Growth Regulation Springer Netherlands 65/1(2011-09-01), 195-206 0167-6903 65:1<195 2011 65 10725 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-011-9588-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-011-9588-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Naeem M. Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Khan M. Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moinuddin Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Idrees Mohd Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aftab Tariq Department of Botany, Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, 202 002, Aligarh, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plant Growth Regulation Springer Netherlands 65/1(2011-09-01), 195-206 0167-6903 65:1<195 2011 65 10725 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer