Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Volume LXI
Written by Monica Luminiţa BADEA, Aurelia DOBRESCU, Elena DELIAN, Ioana Marcela PĂDURE, Liliana BĂDULESCU
Artemisia L. (Asteraceae) genus includes many species being the largest genus from Anthemideae tribe, as well as one of the largest genus from Asteraceae family. Of these species, A. santonica is a perrenial herb or small shrubs and have numerous uses in various field such as medicine, nutrition and industry (phytochemicals). Due to its characteristic features in terms of chemical composition, and their usefulness, the purpose of this paper is to present recent results regarding the chemical composition of essential oil extacted by hidrodistillation from A. santonica. The plant material were collected from different areas of Romania. The qualitative and quantitative essential oil analysis was performed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The results expressed as percentage show the presence of chemical compounds represented in majority by α -thujona, β -thujona, borneol, eucalyptol and camphor.
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