{"id":2807,"date":"2020-11-18T04:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2020-11-18T04:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:34:05","slug":"comparative-study-of-qualitative-and-quantitative-%e2%80%8echaracteristics-of-some-local-mentha-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Study of Qualitative and Quantitative \u200eCharacteristics of Some Local Mentha Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abdel Aleem\nBello*(1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1). Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science,\nUniversity of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(*Corresponding author: Dr. Abdel Aleem Bello. E-\nMail: abdelaleembello@gmail.com). <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Received: 06\/02\/2020                               Accepted:\n24\/07\/2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing the interspecific\nand intraspecific differences of Mentha<\/em> species is not easy, this is due to the\npolymorphism and variations in morphology and anatomy characteristics. Because\nof lack of local studies, it was necessary to taxonomically highlight some\nlocal Mentha<\/em> species, so the aim of this research was to conduct a\ncomparative study of the qualitative and quantitative variations of three local\nspecies of Mentha<\/em>, to find out the distinctive and differentiating\ntaxonomic characteristics for each species. Biometric measurements were taken\nto cover all stages of the plant’s morphological development including\nflowering and fruiting. The studied traits included 39 qualitative\ncharacteristics and 38 quantitative characteristics. The three studied Mentha<\/em>\nspecies were identified as: Mentha longifolia<\/em>, Mentha piperita<\/em>,\nand Mentha spicata<\/em>. The studied species showed morphological and\nanatomical differences, for instance, the stem was hairy in Mentha\nlongifolia<\/em> and glabrous in the other two species, as well the leaves were\nvelvet on both sides in Mentha longifolia<\/em> and glabrous in the other two\nspecies with the exception of some few and short micro hairs on the margin and\nthe apex of the leaf in Mentha piperita<\/em>, and the leaves were petioled in\nMentha piperita<\/em> and either sessile or sub sessile in the other two\nspecies, Mentha longifolia<\/em> was unique in the presence of hairs on the\ncorolla, calyx, and flower pedicle. As for the quantitative characteristics, Mentha\nspicata<\/em> possessed the largest diameter of peltate glandular trichome of\n77.55 micrometer, and the largest length of fruity spike of 11.03 cm. The results indicated the variation of the studied species in a number of\nmorphological and anatomical characteristics such as; the shape and dimensions\nof leaves and inflorescences, dimensions of the hairs and glandular trichomes,\nshape of pollen grains, length of polar and equatorial axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key words<\/strong>: Mentha longifolia, Mentha piperita<\/em>, Mentha spicata, <\/em>Qualitative characteristics, Quantitative characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full paper in Arabic: PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abdel Aleem Bello*(1) (1). Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Dr. Abdel Aleem Bello. E- Mail: abdelaleembello@gmail.com). Received: 06\/02\/2020                               Accepted: 24\/07\/2020 Abstract Knowing the interspecific and intraspecific differences of Mentha species … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}