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Coloured polyethylene mulch and plant density in growing sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)

The research includes two field trials. In the first trial differently coloured PE films were used as mulch and compared with bare soil. In the second trial four plant densites were researched along with mulch of black PE film. The highest yield of fresh herbage were obtained from plots with opaque PE mulch and with plant densites of 40 to 80 plants per square meter. Essential oil yields were higher on plots with brown and yellow-brown mulch. The treatments did not affect the content of the main essential oil components linalool and methylchavicol.

sweet basil; Ocimum basilicum; essential oil; coloured polyethylene mulch; plant density

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