‘Norine’, a cinnamon-linalool hybrid cultivar of basil
Arie Fitzgerald Blank, Alea Dayane Dantas de Santana, Maria de Fátima Arrigoni-Blank, Thiago Matos Andrade, Jéssika Andreza Oliveira Pinto, Alberto Ferreira de Nascimento Júnior and José Magno Queiroz Luz
Abstract – ‘Norine’ is a hybrid cultivar of basil, adapted to the Northeastern Brazil, which is derived from the cultivars ‘Cinnamon’ and ‘Maria Bonita’. It has essential oil content of 2.91% and yield of 2.37 mL plant-1. The main chemical compounds of the essential oil are (E)-methyl cinnamate (41.93 %) and linalool (34.92 %). ‘Norine’ is characterized by presenting upright growth habit, rounded crown, mean height of 55 cm, mean crown diameter of 59 cm, mean leaf length of 8.4 cm, and mean leaf width of 4.5 cm.