Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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ISSN: 2167-0412
+44 1300 500008
Ram Swaroop Verma
CSIR - Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research,
Centre Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand
India
Research Article
Characterization of the Leaf Essential Oil Composition of Annona squamosa L. from Foothills of North India
Author(s): Ram Swaroop Verma, Neeta Joshi, Rajendra Chandra Padalia, Ved Ram Singh, Prakash Goswami and Amit Chauhan
Ram Swaroop Verma, Neeta Joshi, Rajendra Chandra Padalia, Ved Ram Singh, Prakash Goswami and Amit Chauhan
The leaf essential oil composition of Annona squamosa L., collected from the lower region of Himalaya was investigated using gas chromatography-flame ionisation detector (GC-FID) and GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). A total of forty-three constituents, representing 88.6% of the total oil composition were identified. The essential oil was primarily composed of sesquiterpenoids (sesquiterpene hydrocarbons: 63.4% and oxygenated sesquiterpenes: 21.8%). Major constituents of the oil were (E)-caryophyllene (15.9%), γ-cadinene (11.2%), epi-α-cadinol (9.4%), (Z)- caryophyllene (7.3%), γ-muurolene (5.4%), α-humulene (5.2%), viridiflorene (5.0%), α-cadinol (3.9%), aromadendrene (2.9%), δ-cadinene (2.9%), α-cadinene (2.9%), (2Z,6Z)-farnesal (2.2%) and caryophyllene oxide (2.1%).
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DOI:
10.4172/2167-0412.1000270