Claim · model-written summary
Rust disease was associated with an increase in myrcene content of the oil
- Taxon
- Cymbopogon citratus
Cymbopogon citratuse1 - Treatment
- leaves with 75.80 percent disease index (PDI)e2
- Outcome
- myrcene contente3
- Direction
- increasee3
Verbatim
e1“Severe outbreaks of leaf rust disease (Puccinia nakanishikii) can occur on commercial plantations of Cymbopogon citratus (DC) Stapf.”
e2“healthy leaves yielded 0.80% oil, while the leaves with 75.80 percent disease index (PDI) gave a recovery of 0.50% oil with a reduction of 37.50% in yield”
e3“This oil yield reduction is accompanied by a decrease in the geranial, an increase in the neral and an increase in the myrcene content of the oil”
Title
Dynamics of Essential Oil ofCymbopogon citratus(DC) Stapf. Under Rust Disease Indices
Paran Boruah; Bhabani P. Misra; Madan G. Pathak; et al. Journal of Essential Oil Research 1995. doi:10.1080/10412905.1995.9698533