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Comparative Study of Phytochemicals Compounds of Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs under Different Growing Medium

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Phytochemicals are those compounds which found naturally in plants. The compounds play an important role in plant metabolic activity and in human health by protecting from many diseases. These compounds provide plant protection from many diseases. Globally, hydroponics technology has been accepted as sustainable technology to tackle all issues being reported in conventional system. Hydroponics not only offers safe food but also ensures vertical utilization of space with higher water use efficiency. Soil is the natural growing media which provide potential support to plant growth and development. Soilless is the growing media without using soil. Himalayan seasoning Allium or Stracheys Chive Allium stracheyi is a member of Amaryllidaceae family. Vernacular name is “Fern, Jambu”. Allium stracheyi is enlisted as Vulnerable in the Red Data Book of Indian Plants and also categorized it as Vulnerable in the western Himalayan states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. One popular culinary herb is sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.). In Hindi it is known as Babaui Tulsi. Among various Ocimum species, Ocimum basilicum is commercially and extensively cultivated for essential oil production. Its oil is employed for flavouring of food stuffs, confectionery, condiments, and perfumery industry. Pepper Mint (Mentha piperita) is the aromatic, herbaceous plant used for menthol extraction it belongs to the family Lamiaceae. This experiment was conducted during 2021-2022 at DIBER, DRDO, Haldwani, Nainital (Uttarakhand). The objective of this study was to evaluate the Phytochemical properties of different medicinal and Phytochemicals are those compounds which found naturally in plants. The compounds play an important role in plant metabolic activity and in human health by protecting from many diseases. These compounds provide plant protection from many diseases. Globally, hydroponics technology has been accepted as sustainable technology to tackle all issues being reported in conventional system. Hydroponics not only offers safe food but also ensures vertical utilization of space with higher water use efficiency. Soil is the natural growing media which provide potential support to plant growth and development. Soilless is the growing media without using soil. Himalayan seasoning Allium or Stracheys Chive Allium stracheyi is a member of Amaryllidaceae family. Vernacular name is “Fern, Jambu”. Allium stracheyi is enlisted as Vulnerable in the Red Data Book of Indian Plants and also categorized it as Vulnerable in the western Himalayan states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. One popular culinary herb is sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.). In Hindi it is known as Babaui Tulsi. Among various Ocimum species, Ocimum basilicum is commercially and extensively cultivated for essential oil production. Its oil is employed for flavouring of food stuffs, confectionery, condiments, and perfumery industry. Pepper Mint (Mentha piperita) is the aromatic, herbaceous plant used for menthol extraction it belongs to the family Lamiaceae. This experiment was conducted during 2021-2022 at DIBER, DRDO, Haldwani, Nainital (Uttarakhand). The objective of this study was to evaluate the Phytochemical properties of different medicinal and aromatic herbs under different growing conditions. Among different growing condition jambu crop exhibited the tannin and flavonoid content higher (235.42 mg TAE/100 g, 10.44 mg QE/g respectively) under hydroponic growing condition as comparison to other growing condition.

Whereas the total phenol compound found higher (623.44 mg GAE/100 g) under soil growing condition. In Mint aromatic plant the total phenol and flavonoid attributes found higher (632.75 mg GAE/100 g, 25.34 mg QE/g respectively) under soilless growing condition whereas the tannin compound determined higher (198.49 mg TAE/100 g) under hydroponics growing condition. The quality attributes in sweet basil found that’s the tannin and flavonoid recorded higher (301.10 mg TAE/100 g, 19.00 mg QE/g respectively) under soilless growing media as compared to other growing conditions. Whereas the total phenol content found higher (569.13 mg GAE/100 g) under soil growing media. The ascorbic acid found in jambu herb (34.81 mg/100 g) ascorbic acid under soil growing condition, whereas it is found in mint and sweet basil (11.0 mg/100 g, 11.09 mg/100 g respectively) higher under hydroponics growing condition as compared to other growing condition.

Harendra Kumar*, Ankur Agarwal, Pradeep Kr. Yadav Basant Ballabh, Om Prakash, H S Meena, Devakanta Pahad Singh

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