1. Yield and chemical composition of the essential oil of species of the Asteraceae family from Atlantic Forest, South of Brazil
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Luiz Everson da Silva, Marília Pereira Machado, Luiz Antonio Biasi, Cícero Deschamps, Humberto R. Bizzo, and Wanderlei do Amaral
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0106 biological sciences ,biology ,General Chemistry ,Rainforest ,Asteraceae ,Erechtites valerianifolius ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Terpenoid ,0104 chemical sciences ,law.invention ,010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry ,Horticulture ,Inflorescence ,law ,Composition (visual arts) ,Chemical composition ,Essential oil ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
The essential oil yield and composition of 17 species of the Asteraceae family were evaluated. Samples were obtained by hydrodistillation of the leaves and inflorescences and they were analyzed by GC-MS and GC-FID. A total of 13 species presented essential oils with yields ranging from 0.06 to 3.36% in fresh samples and from 0.07 to 2.53% in dried samples. Erechtites valerianifolius (Wolf) DC. produced the highest essential oil yield from both fresh and dried samples. Seventy-nine constituents were identified in essential oils from Asteraceae species, mainly consisting of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes.
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- 2018
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