Zeinab Alipoor; khodayar Hemmati; Khalil Zaynalinezhad; Mohammad Kheyrkhah
Abstract
Objective: Comparison of the morphological and phytochemical characteristics of annual and perennial wild and cultivated Kakuti in Razavi, North and South Khorasan provinces.Methods: In this study, annual (Ziziohora tenuior) and perennial (Ziziphora clinopodioides) Kakuti were studied in six regions ...
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Objective: Comparison of the morphological and phytochemical characteristics of annual and perennial wild and cultivated Kakuti in Razavi, North and South Khorasan provinces.Methods: In this study, annual (Ziziohora tenuior) and perennial (Ziziphora clinopodioides) Kakuti were studied in six regions in Razavi, North and South Khorasan province in 2021. Plant samples were collected from each region and planted in pots. The experimental design used in this experiment was a nested design with four replications. In addition, by going back to the places where plants were collected in the target areas, all the morphological and phytochemical traits were measured for the wild plants.Results: The results demonstrated that the highest percentage of essential oil in annual and perennial kakuti bonged to Qain (0.75%) and Quchan (2.29%), respectively. Also, the percentage of pulegone in the annual kakuti in Bardaskan was higher than that of the other studied cities (77.58%). The highest alpha-pinene (0.42%) and sabinene (1.31%) percentage of annual kakuti belonged to Bojnord, while the alpha-pinene and sabinene of the perennial kakuti in Quchan (0.89%) and Bojnurd (1.23%) was higher than that of the other cities.Conclusion: The amount of phenol, flavonoid and antioxidant activity in the annual and perennial kakutis under natural conditions and in Sarayan were higher than the other treatments. The annual and perennial kakutis belonging to Bojnurd had higher wet and dry yields than the other ecotypes, while the kakuti belonging to Sarayan had superior phytochemical characteristics.