Pre-planting evaluation of allicin content and botanical traits in Iranian garlic (Allium sativum L.) ecotypes

Pre-planting evaluation of allicin content and botanical traits in Iranian garlic (Allium sativum L.) ecotypes

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Background: Garlic is one of the medicinal plants, which is efficate in treatment of mild hypertension Shirt and lipid profiles.Objective: Along this study allicin content and botanical traits are evaluated in pre-planting stage.Method: Bulb mean weight clove mean weight and clove number per bulb were the evaluated morphological characters.Allicin content evaluation was done by HPLC.

The correlation existed between evaluated characters were analyzed.Results: We found that all samples were rich in allicin with values higher than pharmaceutical grade (4.5 jilungin dreaming tea mg/g).This study showed that ecological conditions had not detectable relation with allicin content.

A cluster analysis of data was performed based on morphological characters and allicin content.Conclusion: In general we did not detect significant relationship between genetic diversity and geographical origins, which suggests that probably the genetic factors have more influence than ecology.