Composition of the Essential Oils of Fruits from Polyploid Types ofThapsia villosaL.: Chemotaxonomic Evaluation
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Essential Oil Research
- Vol. 8 (2), 123-128
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10412905.1996.9700578
Abstract
Fruits of tetraploid (2n=44) and hexaploid (2n=66) specimens of Thapsia villosa collected at different locations have been investigated for their essential oil components. Analysis of the essential oils by means of GC and GC/MS has shown that their chemical composition is slightly affected by the chromosome number of die plants. Both tetra- and hexaploid specimens have limonene and methyl eugenol as main constituents. However, the amount of limonene is reduced in the hexaploid plants (14–26% vs 31–55% in the tetraploids) which are also characterized by discrete amounts of elemicin (trace-30.11%).Keywords
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