USE of BIOTECHNOLOGY in ORIGANUM SPECIES : In Vitro Investigations in Oregano

ISBN-13: 9783639119183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 80 str.

Mustafa Ozden

Opis

Oregano is one of the most commonly known culinaryherbs that are used world wide in cooking. Alsooregano is well known as the pizza herb and widelyused in Mexican and Italian cooking. Some of theOriganum species are also used as a fragrancecomponent in soap, detergents, perfumes, cosmetics,flavorings, and pharmaceuticals. Oregano oil is well known for its ability to slow down food spoilage through its antibacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic,antimicrobial, and antioxidant activity. Carvacroland thymol are major phenols present in oregano oilwith antiseptic properties. The present study wasundertaken to standardize media for Origanum speciesin which plants could be regenerated easily in highnumbers by callus culture, and to show its antimicrobial properties. This book, therefore,provides new information about use of oregano oil asa disinfestation agent in tissue culture, callusculture of Origanum species and transient expressionof the GUS reporter gene has not been reported yetin Origanum species. This book could be especiallyuseful and shed some light on improvement oforegano by using biotechnology

O autorze

Mustafa Ozden was born in Karaman, Turkey. He received his BSc
degree in Horticulture from Ankara University. He got MS and PhD
degrees in the field of horticulture from Kansas State
University. Since 2003, Dr. Ozden has been working as a faculty
member at Harran University and conducting research on plant
stress physiology and biotechnology.