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Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy from Serbia
Author(s) -
Jovanovic Tatjana,
Kitic Dusanka,
Palic Radosav,
Stojanovic Gordana,
Ristic Mihailo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
flavour and fragrance journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1099-1026
pISSN - 0882-5734
DOI - 10.1002/ffj.1409
Subject(s) - chemistry , antimicrobial , essential oil , pseudomonas aeruginosa , staphylococcus aureus , klebsiella pneumoniae , traditional medicine , food science , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , escherichia coli , organic chemistry , bacteria , biochemistry , biology , medicine , gene , genetics
The hydrodistilled essential oil of Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy was analysed by GC and GC/MS. Thirty constituents representing 83.8% of the oil were identied, of which germacrene D (47.0%) was the major component. Furthermore, β ‐bourbonene (7.7%), caryophyllene oxide (3.2%) and β ‐caryophyllene (3.0%) were noted as additional signicant constituents. The antimicrobial activity of the oil was screened against Escherichia coli , Staphylococcus aureus , Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae . All the microorganisms, except for Pseudomonas aeruginosa , were found to be susceptible to the oil. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.