Description

Ocimum basilicum are widely used for their culinary, cultural, and medicinal properties due to production of a wide variety of specialized metabolites, especially terpenoids.

Scientific classitication

Family: Lamiaceae

Genus: Ocimum

Common Name

Luo Le

Reference

Bornowski, N., Hamilton, J. P., Liao, P., Wood, J. C., Dudareva, N., & Buell, C. R. (2020). Genome sequencing of four culinary herbs reveals terpenoid genes underlying chemodiversity in the Nepetoideae. DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes, 27(3), dsaa016.