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Salvia officinalis L. and Salvia fruticosa Mill.: Dalmatian and Three-Lobed Sage

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The closely related Dalmatian sage (Salvia officinalis L.), Spanish sage (Salvia officinalis subsp. officinalis (Vahl) Gams, syn. S. lavandulifolia Vahl) and Greek, Turkish or three-lobed sage (S. fruticosa Mill., syn. S. libanotica Boiss. & Gaill., S. triloba L.) are in commercial terms amongst the most important species of the very species-rich genus Salvia and are used as aromatic as well as medicinal plants. The flavour depends mainly on the profile of the essential oil, but S. officinalis and S. fruticosa are also rich in antioxidants. Breeding was focusing so far only on optimizing herb yield and breeding for optimizing certain flavour profiles. However, due to increasing problems with fungal diseases, resistance breeding will play an important role in the future.

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Schmiderer, C., Novak, J. (2020). Salvia officinalis L. and Salvia fruticosa Mill.: Dalmatian and Three-Lobed Sage. In: Novak, J., Blüthner, WD. (eds) Medicinal, Aromatic and Stimulant Plants. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38792-1_16

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