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Physio-chemical and antioxidant profiling of Salvia sclarea L. at different climates in north-western Himalayas

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Salvia sclarea Linn. commonly known as clary sage, is an important medicinal herb with high market demand. To assess properties suitable for commercial exploitation, physiological and biochemical studies were conducted at different climatic zones in the Western Himalayas. These include Jammu (subtropical; 305 m), Srinagar (temperate; 1730 m) and Leh (cold arid; 3505 m) environment. Antioxidant capacity based on radical scavenging and DNA protecting activity of the plants growing at three locations was found to be highest in Srinagar. The cellular damage in terms of lipid peroxidation was found significantly (p ≤ 0.05) higher in Jammu as compared to Srinagar and Leh. SOD and GR showed significant (p ≤ 0.05) differences between all three climatic zones. High expression of GR at higher altitudes is also corroborated by higher reduced state of glutathione. Significant (p ≤ 0.05) increase in floral characteristics like inflorescence and spike length was observed at Leh. Chemical investigation of essential oil revealed the increased percentage of linalool and sclareol, two commercially important constituents, in Leh. 52.9 and 39.4 % increase was observed in the metabolic content of sclareol in Leh as compared to their values in Jammu and Srinagar, respectively. Higher floral biomass and qualitative increase in essential oil suggest that cold arid Himalayan region can be exploited for commercial cultivation of clary sage.

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Authors thank the Director, IIIM, Jammu for providing necessary facilities to carry out the work. Authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, for financial support under CSIR- networking project (BSC-0109) on ‘Plant Diversity: Studying adaptation biology and understanding/exploiting medicinally important plants for useful bioactives (SIMPLE)’. TK, HAB and RB acknowledge the financial assistance provided by CSIR in form of JRF/SRF fellowship.

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  1. Biodiversity and Applied Botany Division, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Canal Road, Jammu, 180001, India

    Tarandeep Kaur, Hilal A. Bhat, Rohini Bhat, Arun Kumar, Sushma Koul & Dhiraj Vyas

  2. Instrumentation Division, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Canal Road, Jammu, 180001, India

    Kushal Bindu

  3. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR), Canal Road, Jammu, 180001, India

    Tarandeep Kaur, Rohini Bhat & Dhiraj Vyas

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Kaur, T., Bhat, H.A., Bhat, R. et al. Physio-chemical and antioxidant profiling of Salvia sclarea L. at different climates in north-western Himalayas. Acta Physiol Plant 37, 132 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-015-1879-7

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