315 Effects of Various Nutrient Sources on Growth and Essential Oil Characteristics of Salvia Officinalis L. in Greenhouse Amir Soltanbeigi 1* • Mustafa Yildiz 2 • Erhan Sakartepe 3 1* Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. E-mail: amir.soltanbeigi@afsu.edu.tr 2 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar/Turkey. E-mail: mustafa_yildizus@yahoo.com, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6819-9891 3 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar/Turkey. E-mail: sakartepe.erhan@hotmail.com, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-0007 A R T I C L E I N F O Article History: Received: 14.03.2021 Accepted: 15.04.2021 Available Online: 21.06.2021 Keywords: GC-MS Microbiological Fertilizer Sage Vermicompost Volatile Oil A B S T R A C T The agronomic and chemical characteristics of aromatic plants are affected by nutritional sources. Salvia officinalis (common sage) is an aromatic plant extensively used in food, popular medicine, and many pharmacological research studies. In this study, the effects of NPK, vermicompost and two types of microbiological fertilizer were investigated on the agronomic parameters and volatile oil characteristics of S. officinalis grown in the greenhouse. The plants were harvested two times (1 st and 2 nd cuttings) during the growing season. The consumption of NPK has the highest effect on stem number (54 no plant -1 ), fresh and dry herb weight (96.8 and 27.2 g p -1 ), fresh and dry leaf weight (74.6 and 19.6 g p -1 ), and volatile oil percentage (1.64%). While the herb weight at the 1 st cutting (74.3 g p -1 ) was higher than the 2 nd cutting (70.2 g p -1 ), the fresh (58.2 g p -1 ) and dry (16.6 g p -1 ) leaf weights and the leaf ratio (80.5 %) at the 2 nd cutting were higher than the 1 st cutting. Moreover, the volatile oil contents at the 1 st cutting (1.44%) were higher than the 2 nd cutting (1.18%). In total, 31 compounds were identified in the volatile oils by using GC/FID-MS. The percentages of -Thujone (22.4-31.4%) and Camphor (21.0-25.4%) were found higher than other compounds. The content of -Thujone was higher in NPK and vermicompost treatments. Based on the results, the application of different nutritional sources improved the yield and chemical properties of S. officinalis. Among the non-chemical nutrient sources, vermicompost had high efficiency. Please cite this paper as follows: Soltanbeigi, A., Yildiz, M. and Sakartepe, E. (2021). Effects of Various Nutrient Sources on Growth and Essential Oil Characteristics of Salvia Officinalis L. in Greenhouse. Alinteri Journal of Agriculture Sciences, 36(1): 315-322. doi: 10.47059/alinteri/V36I1/AJAS21047 Introduction The genus Salvia belongs to the Lamiaceae family represented by 87 species, of which 44 are endemic in Turkey (Nakipoğlu, 1993; Delamare et al., 2007). Salvia officinalis L. (common sage), as the most economic species of genus Salvia, is a perennial woody sub-shrub with blue to purple flowers. This plant does not grow naturally in Turkey. But in recent years, due to the economic values of Salvia species, it has attracted the interest of producers (Bahtiyarca Bağdat et al., 2017; Sönmez and Bayram, 2017). * Corresponding author: amir.soltanbeigi@afsu.edu.tr Common sage is widely used as the raw material of Pharmaceutical, perfumery, and the food industries (Nadjafi et al., 2014). Most phytochemical research of this species has focused on its volatile oil. -Pinene (0.6-6.4%), Camphene (0.6-5.5%), 1,8-Cineole (5.3-14.6%), -Thujone (15.2-26.6%), -Thujone (5.2-12.9%), Camphor (16.4-20.0%), Borneol (1.8-4.9%), Bornyl acetate (2.1-2.2%), (E)-b- Caryophyllene (2.4-4.5%), -Humulene (5.3-8.5%), Viridiflorol (4.0-8.5%) were identified as the main compounds of S. officinalis (Raal et al., 2007). The anti- cancer, anti-mutagenic, hypoglycemic, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antidementia, antinociceptive, and anti- Alinteri J. of Agr. Sci. (2021) 36(1): 315-322 e-ISSN: 2587-2249 info@alinteridergisi.com http://dergipark.gov.tr/alinterizbd http://www.alinteridergisi.com/ DOI:10.47059/alinteri/V36I1/AJAS21047 RESEARCH ARTICLE