Growth, photosynthetic pigments and production of essential oil of long-pepper under different light conditions

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Piper hispidinervum C. DC. is popularly known as long-pepper and it owns a commercial value due to the essential oil it produces. Long-pepper oil is rich in safrole and eugenoln components that have insecticidal, fungicidal and bactericidal activity. It has been establish that to medicinal plants light influences not only growth but also essential oil production. The growth, the content of photosynthetic pigments and the essential oil production of Piper hispidinervum at greenhouses with different light conditions was evaluated. The treatments were characterized by cultivation of plants for 180 days under different light conditions, produced by shading greenhouses with 50% and 30% of natural incident irradiance, two colored shading nets red (RN) and blue (BN) both blocking 50% of the incident radiation and one treatment at full-sun (0% of shade). The results showed that the treatments of 50% shade and RN and BN were the ones which stimulated the greater growth. Blue and red light also had the best production of photosynthetic pigments. Essential oil yielded more under full sun therefore this is the most indicated condition to produce seedlings for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

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Lima, V. A., Pacheco, F. V., Avelar, R. P., Alvarenga, I. C. A., Pinto, J. E. B. P., & de Alvarenga, A. A. (2017). Growth, photosynthetic pigments and production of essential oil of long-pepper under different light conditions. Anais Da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 89(2), 1167–1174. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201720150770

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