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Front. Plant Sci.

Sec. Crop and Product Physiology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1540520

This article is part of the Research TopicEcometabolomics of Crop Responses to Climate Change: Acclimation, Alleviation, and ResilienceView all 5 articles

Does Photoselective Netting Influence Yield, Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oils in Cultivated Sage?

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Zoran Svetislav IlicZoran Svetislav Ilic1*Lidija MilenkovicLidija Milenkovic1Ljiljana StanojevicLjiljana Stanojevic2Ljubomir SunicLjubomir Sunic1Aleksandra MilenkovicAleksandra Milenkovic2Ljubomir ŠunićLjubomir Šunić1Jelena StanojevićJelena Stanojević2Dragan CvetkovićDragan Cvetković2
  • 1University of Pristina, Mitrovica, Serbia
  • 2University of Niš, Niš, Southern and Eastern Serbia, Serbia

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Yield, chemical profile and antioxidant activity of sage (Salvia officinalis L.) essential oils (SEOs) isolated from shaded (pearl, red and blue color nets) or non-shaded plants have been investigated.Analysis of the results can be seen a slightly higher amount of sage essential oil (SEO) from the shaded leaves samples, with minor exceptions. The highest yield of SEO was obtained from the samples cultivated under the blue photo-selective nets (1.97 mL/100 g p.m.). A total of 38 different components were identified in sage and divided into 7 groups. The main components of SEO were cis-thujone (32.9-35.2%), camphor (19.0-25.6%), trans-thujone (8.6-13.1%) and 1,8-cineole (9.4-11.0%).The strong antioxidant activity of all tested samples showed SEO from shaded sage leaves grown under the blue photoselective net for the all incubation times (20.00-37.28 mL/100 g p.m.).These researches confirmed that sage responded positively to blue light shading through increased production of secondary metabolic products such as EOs.

Keywords: Salvia officinalis L., Essential oil, GC/MS analysis, yield, composition, antioxidant activity

Received: 05 Dec 2024; Accepted: 27 Mar 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Ilic, Milenkovic, Stanojevic, Sunic, Milenkovic, Šunić, Stanojević and Cvetković. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Zoran Svetislav Ilic, University of Pristina, Mitrovica, Serbia

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