Essential oil composition of fruits and leaves of Zanthoxylum nitidum grown in upper Assam region of India
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- 1Bengal School of Technology, Delhi Road, Hooghly 712102, West Bengal, India.
- 2Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh 786004, Assam, India.
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Sanjib Bhattacharya
Bengal School of Technology, Delhi Road, Hooghly 712102, West Bengal, India.
Received: 01-03-2009; Accepted: 09-04-2009.
Volume 1, Issue 3 · pp. 148-151 · 2009 · DOI:
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Essential oils isolated by hydro-distillation from the fruits and leaves of Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb.) DC (Rutaceae), growing in upper Assam region of North-East India were analyzed by GC and GC-MS. The fruit volatile oil contained 17 components amongst which 75% were monoterpenes, 12.5% were sesquiterpenes and 12.5% were straight chain hydrocarbons; whereas the leaf volatile oil contained 16 components out of which 60% were monoterpenes, 13.3% were sesquiterpenes, and 26.7% were straight chain hydrocarbons. Linalool (23.3%), limonene (12.9%), α-terpineol (8.3%), α-pinene (7.9%) were the predominant monoterpenes of the fruit oil and the main monoterpenes in the leaf oil were limonene (33.1%), geraniol (10.6%) and carvone (9.6%).
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Bhattacharya, S., & Zaman, M. K. (2009). Essential oil composition of fruits and leaves of Zanthoxylum nitidum grown in upper Assam region of India. Pharmacognosy Research, 1(3), 148-151.
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