Aromatic Plants from “Plateau des Cataractes”: Kinetic modeling of the extraction of leaf essential oils from Curcuma mangga (Valeton and Zijp) acclimatized in Congo-Brazzaville

Author(s):  
Thomas Silou ◽  
Ernest Bitemou ◽  
Kevin Bikindou ◽  
Aubin Nestor Loumouamoua ◽  
Pierre Chalard

Curcuma mangga Val. and Zijp is one of the many underutilized species of the genus Curcuma despite their proven interest as spice to color and enhance the taste of food, on the one hand, and as medicinal plants through essential oils extracted from different parts of the plant, on the other hand. Modeling the extraction in order to optimize the yield of essential oil is a pre requisite for the development of this species used as a spice in Congo-Brazzaville. The experimental results of the extraction of essential oil from the leaves analyzed, according to the phenomenological approach, validate both the kinetic model of the pseudo first order, when the washing step is neglected compared to the diffusion step and that of Peleg corresponding to a desorption in two steps (washing/diffusion). The main constituents of the oil adopt different desorption routes depending on their nature and their quantitative importance in the oil. Simple kinetics have been observed for sesquiterpenes present in relatively large amounts and complex for the monoterpenes in much smaller quantities.

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 909-1009
Author(s):  
Maryam Akaberi ◽  
Zahra Tayarani-Najaran ◽  
Iraj Mehregan ◽  
Javad Asili ◽  
Amirhossein Sahebkar ◽  
...  

One of the most important families of Iranian flora is Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). Most of the species of this family are aromatic plants and rich in essential oils with diverse structures. In the present review, the essential oil composition of 63 genera comprising 141 Apiaceae (66.4% native 33.6% endemic) is summarized.


Author(s):  
Dalila Razni ◽  
Linda Rouisset ◽  
Elhassan Benyagoub

This study is a part of the valorization of extract from three most commonly used Algerian spices, namely; caraway and cumin seeds and cinnamon bark. On the one hand, it aims at characterizing the chemical indices of extracted essential oils and evaluating the antibacterial activity of each essential oil by titration and disc diffusion method respectively. On the other hand, it attempts at evaluating the combined action of essential oils against four reference pathogenic bacterial strains, namely Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Enterococcus faecalis by well and Chabbert-type diffusion method. The essential oils obtained by the hydrodistillation method have a relatively average extraction about 1.43, 2.3 and 2.5%, respectively for caraway, cumin, and cinnamon. The acid index indicates the behavior and amount of free acids present in the essential oil, in which the acid and saponification indices of cinnamon essential oil indicate a value of 4.48 and 168.56 respectively. It can also inform us about the susceptibility of the oil to undergo alterations. The antibacterial activity results showed that cinnamon essential oil (EO) proved to be the most active against the tested bacterial strains; caraway EO was active against Enterococcus faecalis, and the antibacterial action of cumin EO was the lowest. However, the association of the extracted essential oils has a higher synergistic effect than the independent effect of each essential oil, in which the MIC value found was estimated at 10 to 20 (V/V), 40 to 50 (V/V) and 50 to 70 (V/V) respectively for cinnamon, cumin and caraway. The obtained results show that the response to the antibacterial activity varies according to the plant species used and the extract tested alone or in combination.


2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetomir Milojevic ◽  
Dragana Radosavljevic ◽  
Vladimir Pavicevic ◽  
Srdjan Pejanovic ◽  
Vlada Veljkovic

The present work deals with modeling the kinetics of essential oils extraction from plant materials by water and steam distillation. The experimental data were obtained by studying the hydrodistillation kinetics of essential oil from juniper berries. The literature data on the kinetics of essential oils hydrodistillation from different plant materials were also included into the modeling. A physical model based on simultaneous washing and diffusion of essential oil from plant materials were developed to describe the kinetics of essential oils hydrodistillation, and two other simpler models were derived from this physical model assuming either instantaneous washing followed by diffusion or diffusion with no washing (i.e. the first-order kinetics). The main goal was to compare these models and suggest the optimum ones for water and steam distillation and for different plant materials. All three models described well the experimental kinetic data on water distillation irrespective of the type of distillation equipment and its scale, the type of plant materials and the operational conditions. The most applicable one is the model involving simultaneous washing and diffusion of the essential oil. However, this model was generally inapplicable for steam distillation of essential oils, except for juniper berries. For this hydrodistillation technique, the pseudo first-order model was shown to be the best one. In a few cases, a variation of the essential oil yield with time was observed to be sigmoidal and was modeled by the Boltzmann sigmoid function.


Author(s):  
PURIT PATTANAPANIT ◽  
SUNISA MITHONGLANG ◽  
SUNITA MITHONGLANG ◽  
SURACHAI TECHAOEI

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of volatile oils from aromatic plants against pathogenic bacteria.Methods: Thai aromatic plants such as Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth (Patchouli oil), Cymbopogon nardus Rendle (Citronella grass oil), Pelargoniumroseum (Geranium oil), Syzygium aromaticum (L.) Merrill and Perry (clove oil), Cinnamomum spp.(cinnamon oil), and Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf.(lemongrass oil) were selected. Essential oils were obtained by water distillation and were stored at 4°C until use. Five human pathogenic bacteria wereobtained from Thai traditional Medicine College, Rajamangala University of Technology, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcusaureus, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The antibacterial activity of volatile oils was determined by disc-diffusionassay. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) of each essential oil were determined.Results: Our study showed that 10% of essential oil from Cinnamomum spp. was the most potential against S. aureus, MRSA, and E. coli when assayedby disc-diffusion method with inhibition zones ranging from 37.66±0.57 to 45.33±1.15 mm and from 29.33±0.57 to 36.00±1.00 for lemongrass oilwith MIC and MBC of 1.25%.Conclusion: From this study, it can be concluded that some essential oils have potential antibacterial activity. The present investigation providessupport to the antibacterial properties of essential oils and will be applied to health-care product as aroma antibacterial products.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 2471-2475
Author(s):  
REYYAN YERGİN ÖZKAN ◽  
◽  
MURAT TUNÇTÜRK

Allelopathy refers to chemical effect of a plant direct or indirect on germination, growth or development of neighboring plants. Allelopathy can be considered as a component of biological control that reduces the development of other plants. This study was carried out to determine the effect of Greek sage (Salvia fruticosa Miller), basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), Dragonhead (Dracocephalum moldavica L.), spearmint (Menta spicata L.), sage (Salvia officinalis L.), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.), oregano (Origanum onites L.) and thyme (Thymus kotschyanus Boiss.) on the germination of redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.) which causes significant yield loss in agricultural production. Essential oil (9, 18, 36 µL/petri) and hydrosols (50, 75, 100%) of aromatic plants were applied to determine their inhibition effects on seed germination of A. retroflexus. The experimental design for in vitro was a randomized design with five replications. It has been shown that germination rate was decreasing by the increased concentration of essential oil and hydrosols of the tested plant species. Also, total germination inhibition of A. retroflexus depended on the essential oil doses; the rate ranged from-2.9 to 85%. Amongst the essential oils, the highest effect was observed in spearmint with 7% germination rate. It could be considered as an important solution, which would contribute in Integrated Weed Management of A. retroflexus by using different concentrations of essential oil and hydrosols from aromatic plants.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-237
Author(s):  
S. M. Talebi ◽  
S. Behzadpour ◽  
A. Matsyura

Salvia chloroleuca Rech. f. & Aell. is one of the perennial species of the Lamiaceae family in Iran, which has antimicrobial and antitumoural properties. In the current research, the morphological variables and hydrodistilled essential oils of two populations, from Polor and Neyshabur, of this species were evaluated. We studied 10 and 40 individuals for morphometrics and essential oils, respectively. Morphological data were analyzed using SPSS. Furthermore, the extracted oils were analysed using GC and GC/MS. The qualitative morphological characteristics were stable between the populations, while the quantitative ones highly varied. The one-sample variance test revealed significant differences for most of the studied features. The yielded oil highly differed between these populations. The first and second main groups of compounds were the same for both populations, but with different percentages. However, the third and fourth main groups of compounds were not similar. Furthermore, the main compounds of essential oil differed between the studied populations. The major compounds of the Polor population were: β-pinene (22.7%), α-pinene (18.3%), germacrene D (7.7%) and sabinene (6.6%). However, spathulenol (19.8%), bicyclogermacrene (11.4%), p-cymene (10.8%) and β-pinene (10.4%) constituted the major compounds of the Nyshabur population. In total, the Neyshabur population had higher amounts of sesquiterpene and oxygenated compounds than the other population. The results indicated that in this species the quantitative morphological characters and essential oils were strongly affected by environmental factors.


Author(s):  
Yoro Tine ◽  
Alioune Diallo ◽  
William Diatta ◽  
Jean-Marie Desjobert ◽  
Jean Costa ◽  
...  

Zanthoxylum leprieurii belonging to Rutaceae family, is a medicinal and aromatic plants widely used in ethnopharmacology. Like other plants of Rutaceae family such as Citrus sp., the essential oils of this species could be used in cosmetic and pharmaceutical products. Thus, the essential oils of Z. leprieurii from different plant organs (fruit, leaf, stem and root) were investigated by using GC and GC-MS. The volatile composition of Z. leprieurii fruits exhibited relative high amounts of hydrocarbons monoterpenes (90.9%) such as (E)-β-ocimene (50.9%) and a-pinene (30.4%). The chemical composition of fruit oils was compared with volatile fractions of leaves, stems and roots from the same plant station. Germacrene B (9.0%), b-phellandrene (7.6%), caryophyllene oxide (7.2%) and b-caryophyllene (5.3%) were identified as the major constituents of leaves whereas the essential oil composition of the roots dominated by sesquiterpenes (83.3%) such as germacrone (23.5%), germacrene B (19.1%), g-elemene (6.0%), elemenone (4.0%) and b-elemene (2.4%) in the essential oil of the stems, b-Phellandrene (12.7%), germacrene B (5.0%), germacrene D (4.7%) and cis-9-Octadecen-1-ol (4.6%) have been reported as majority compounds.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Djawardi Djawardi

Indonesia is rich with diversity / germplasm aromatic plants that produce essential oils. Essential oils also called etheric oils, or oil fly. There is a non-oil export commodities are needed in various industries. The many types of Essential Oils require handling a priority scale. The method used is Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP) by utilizing the expert judgement. The analysis using criteria Feasibility for SMEs, New Commodities and the New Territories, and sub-criteria Speed of Capital Returns, Market Prospects, Easy Access Resource, Value Added, and Enviroment. Based on criteria and sub-criteria results that essential oils of Jasmine (Melati), Masoyi (Masoyi) and Cubeb (Kemukus) must be prioritized to development.


2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 1934578X0800300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy P. P. Kamatou ◽  
Robyn L. Van Zyl ◽  
Hajierah Davids ◽  
Sandy F. Van Vuuren ◽  
Alvaro M. Viljoen

The solvent extracts of aromatic plants contain both volatile (e.g. essential oils) and non-volatile compounds. The biological activities (antibacterial, anti-oxidant, antiplasmodial and anticancer) of the solvent extracts of three South African Salvia species ( Salvia africana-caerulea, S. africana-lutea and S. lanceolata) were evaluated in the presence and absence of the essential oils. The solvent extract of S. africana-caerulea free of essential oil exhibited the best activity against Gram-positive bacteria (MIC value: 0.4 mg/mL), while the solvent extract containing essential oil of S. lanceolata was the most active against Gram-negative bacteria (MIC value: 2.0 mg/mL). No significant difference was obtained in the antiplasmodial activity of the solvent extract with or without the essential oils of S. africana-caerulea and S. lanceolata, while the activity of the solvent extract without essential oil was significantly higher than that of the solvent extract containing the essential oil in S. africana-lutea (p < 0.05). The toxicity profile of all three species was significantly higher (p < 0.05) with the solvent extracts containing essential oils than when assessed in the absence of the essential oil.


1970 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasim Uddin Chowdhury ◽  
Md Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan ◽  
Nemai Chandra Nandi

The volatile oil constituents of leaf- and fruit in Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B. Robinson, identified by GC-MS analysis, was 83 and 33, respectively. The major constituents of leaf were phytol (22.42%), caryophyllene (21.48%), thujopsene (12.17%) and β-myrcene (5%); while those of the fruit oil contained lauric acid (44.84%), 3-octen-5-yne, 2,7-dimethyl (28.72%), α-cubebene (6.84%) and caryophyllene (5.04%). Key words: Litsea glutinosa, Essential oil, GC-MS, Phytol, Lauric acid doi:10.3329/bjb.v37i1.1568 Bangladesh J. Bot. 37(1): 81-83, 2008 (June)


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document