Mentha is a strongly scented herb of the Lamiaceae (formerly Labiatae) and includes about
30 species and hybrid species that are distributed or introduced throughout the globe. These …

Future R&D initiatives must be strengthened in light of establishing biotechnological tools
and comprehending secondary metabolic pathways to build designer chemotypes of mint …

The Mentha germplasm collection housed at the USDA National Clonal Germplasm
Repository is a valuable source of diversity for genetic studies and mint breeding. We …

Mentha longifolia, a wild relative of the polyploid, cultivated Mentha (mint) species, was
evaluated as a potential model system for genetic research relevant to the cultivated mints …

The genus Mentha encompasses mint species cultivated for their essential oils, which are
formulated into a vast array of consumer products. Desirable oil characteristics and …

Abstract Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds., a wild, diploid mint species, has been developed as a
model for mint genetic and genomic research to aid breeding efforts that target Verticillium …

The genus Mentha has considerable economic importance as a source of essential oils for
the flavor, fragrance, and aromatherapy industries (Lange and Ahkami, 2013). The history of …

Twenty eight somatic hybrid plants were identified following protoplast fusions between
peppermint (Mentha piperita L. cv Black Mitcham), producing high-quality oil, and spearmint …

The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) method was used to evaluate genetic
diversity and to assess genetic relationships within the section Mentha in order to clarify the …

Seventeen mint accessions representing the three species grown for commercial oil
production in the United States were characterized using randomly amplified polymorphic …