Claim · model-written summary
UV significantly increased most monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes.
- Taxon
- Mentha spicata
Mentha spicatat0 - Treatment
- UV treatmente0
- Outcome
- monoterpenes and sesquiterpenese0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“the majority of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes, constituents of valuable mint essential oil, were significantly increased through UV treatment”
t0“Mentha spicata”
Title
Gaia Crestani; Kristýna Večeřová; Natalie Cunningham; et al. Plants 2024. doi:10.3390/plants13131746
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect UV increased flavonoid production 1.8 fold.
- Intervention effect UV left phenolic acids unchanged.
- Intervention effect UV increased alpha linalool up to 90 fold.
- Intervention effect Carotenoids and tocopherols did not increase after UV.
- Observation Recovery increased carotenoids, mono and sesquiterpenes, and phenolics.
- Observation Recovery increased amino acid contents.
- Observation Recovery decreased sterols and tocopherols.