Genetic diversity of selected medicinal plants in protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic

K. Dušek, E. Dušková and K. Smékalová
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K. Dušek: Department of Vegetables and Special Crops Olomouc, Crop Research Institute, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic, e-mail: dusek@genobanka.cz
E. Dušková: Department of Vegetables and Special Crops Olomouc, Crop Research Institute, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic, e-mail: dusek@genobanka.cz
K. Smékalová: Department of Vegetables and Special Crops Olomouc, Crop Research Institute, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic, e-mail: dusek@genobanka.cz

Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2010, vol. 46, issue SpecialIssue, S34-S36

Abstract: Agrimonia eupatoria, Betonica officinalis, Hypericum perforatum, Plantago media, Salvia pratensis and S. verticillata were selected as subjects for a research project studying the genetic diversity of wild medicinal plants in the Czech Republic. Some plants (both in the vegetative form and as seeds) from 26 localities at 5 protected landscape areas around the Czech Republic were transferred to the field nursery in Olomouc; there the contents of the active compounds (essential oil, tannins, hypericin and hyperforin, mucus) were evaluated. The large number of results provides a good opportunity to evaluate the quality of natural medicinal plants for pharmaceutical purposes; with regard to its origin, and to selecting starting materials for both breeding and the production of drugs.

Keywords: active substances content; medicinal plants; protected landscape area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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