Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Teor e composição do óleo essencial de cinco acessos de mentrasto

2004; Brazilian Chemical Society; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0100-40422004000100011

ISSN

1678-7064

Autores

Henrique Guílhon de Castro, Luiz Orlando de Oliveira, Luiz C. A. Barbosa, Francisco Affonso Ferreira, Derly José Henriques da Silva, Paulo Roberto Mosquim, Evandro A. Nascimento,

Tópico(s)

Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

Resumo

ACCESSES OF MENTRASTO.This study aimed to analyse the content and the composition of the essential oil of five accesses of mentrasto (Ageratum conyzoides).Five accesses of mentrasto with three repetitions were used.The accesses were obtained in Mariana-MG (AMA), Piranga-MG (API), Visconde do Rio Branco (ARB) and Viçosa-MG (AVB and AVP).The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation and the identification of the oil components by CG and GC/MS.The ARB access presented the higher essential oil content, that is 0.70% (P < 0.05).Eleven chemical compounds were identified.The precocene I was the main constituent in the access API, and the precocene II was the main constituent in the accesses AMA, ARB, AVB and AVP.

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