Comparative evaluation of chemical variation and post-harvest processing of Clerodendrum phlomidis L.f. essential oils from different locations in southern India
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Clerodendrum phlomidis L.f. is a medicinal shrub found across dry terrains in tropical or sub-tropical regions. Essential oils (EO) from four different accessions at separate locations in southern India were extracted by hydro-distillation. GC and GC-MS analyses of the EO showed (E)-caryophyllene as the major compound in all the samples, ranging from 26.42 to 53.41 %. α-Humulene, linalool, phytol, and caryophyllene oxide were the other major compounds found in the EO of C. phlomidis. Post-harvest processing of C. phlomidis was optimized at different shade drying durations to study the EO yield and percentage of (E)-caryophyllene. Seven days of shade drying provides maximum yield of EO and (E)-caryophyllene content. The major compound, (E)-caryophyllene, was also confirmed by NMR analysis of the essential oil. (E)-Caryophyllene is a plant secondary metabolite with several biological properties and this is the first report on the chemical composition of the (E)-caryophyllene rich chemotype of C. phlomidis.
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Biochemical Systematics and Ecology is devoted to the publication of original papers and reviews, both submitted and invited, in two subject areas: I) the application of biochemistry to problems relating to systematic biology of organisms (biochemical systematics); II) the role of biochemistry in interactions between organisms or between an organism and its environment (biochemical ecology).
In the Biochemical Systematics subject area, comparative studies of the distribution of (secondary) metabolites within a wider taxon (e.g. genus or family) are welcome. Comparative studies, encompassing multiple accessions of each of the taxa within their distribution are particularly encouraged. Welcome are also studies combining classical chemosystematic studies (such as comparative HPLC-MS or GC-MS investigations) with (macro-) molecular phylogenetic studies. Studies that involve the comparative use of compounds to help differentiate among species such as adulterants or substitutes that illustrate the applied use of chemosystematics are welcome. In contrast, studies solely employing macromolecular phylogenetic techniques (gene sequences, RAPD studies etc.) will be considered out of scope. Discouraged are manuscripts that report known or new compounds from a single source taxon without addressing a systematic hypothesis. Also considered out of scope are studies using outdated and hard to reproduce macromolecular techniques such as RAPDs in combination with standard chemosystematic techniques such as GC-FID and GC-MS.