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- Title
Aroma in plants: can it serve as a criterion in delimitation of taxa at infraspecific level?
- Authors
Chauhan, Amit; Verma, Ram Swaroop; Padalia, R. C.
- Abstract
The authors discuss various aspects of aromatic plants in perfumery, cosmetic products, flavouring agents, drugs, cancer treatment and in defining intraspecific taxonomy. The diversity and classification of genus Origanum vulgare by several botanists are reported. It is stated that morphological variations in population of Origanum vulgare sensulato helps in chemodiversity study.
- Subjects
AROMATIC plants; TAXONOMY; OREGANO; PERFUMES; COSMETICS; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Current Science (00113891), 2011, Vol 101, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0011-3891
- Publication type
Opinion