Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1999 |
Authors: | D. Mockute, Bernotiene G. |
Journal: | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 9 |
Pagination: | 3787 - 3790 |
Date Published: | 1999/// |
Keywords: | Carvacrol chemotype, Chemotypes of essential oil, Citral-geraniol chemotype, Thymus pulegioides L. |
Abstract: | Thymus pulegioides L. with lemon and carvacrol odor form the major part of plants growing wild in all 10 investigated localities during 1995-1997. The main components of the citral-geraniol chemotype of lemon-scented essential oil are the following (%): geraniol (14.9-30.8), geranial (transcitral, 9.7-19.7), β-caryophylene (6.0-11.4), nerol (4.1-11.8), and neral (cis-citral, 0.1-9.5). The essential oil of carvacrol chemotypes contain more compounds that are characteristic of the thyme genus (%): carvacrol (16.0-22.2), β-bisabolene (11.1-20.2), β-caryophyllene (11.1- 19.1), γ-terpinene (5.8-16.2), p-cimene (5.5-10.4), thymol (3.3-9.8), and carvacrol methyl ether (5.6-8.6). The correlation between the odor and composition of the essential oil will help the users of wild thyme to choose the necessary chemotype for their purposes. |
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The main citral-geraniol and carvacrol chemotypes of the essential oil of Thymus pulegioides L. growing wild in Vilnius district (Lithuania)
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