PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF ORIGANUM MAJORANA (L.) CULTIVATED IN A SEMI-ARID BIOCLIMATICSTAGE (SOUTH-EAST ALGERIA
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2018-05-01
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university of eloued جامعة الوادي
Abstract
The essential oils (EO) are complex volatile natural compounds, characterized by a strong
odor, produced by the plants as secondary metabolites. The composition of these last is
strongly influenced by intrinsic factors twinned with the extrinsic factors such as technology,
the cultivation techniques, the édapho-climatic conditions of the culture medium, like those of
the storage of vegetable drug, the techniques of treatment, etc… The extraction of essential
oils (EO) of marjoram (O. majorana), by the method of hydro-distillation made it possible to
obtain an average essential oil yield of about 0.61% of which the density is low. The chemical
characterization by gas chromatography highlighted the wealth of this oil in Bornéol (15.50%)
and Cineol (11.33%).
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essential oil (EO); O. majorana L.; cineol; bornéol; Gas chromatography; secondary metabolites
Citation
A. Chenna1,2, R. Ahmedi3, A. Chefrour4,51.PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF ORIGANUM MAJORANA (L.) CULTIVATED IN A SEMI-ARID BIOCLIMATICSTAGE (SOUTH-EAST ALGERIA. Journal of Fundamental and sciences. vol.10, no 2. May 2018. Faculty of exact sciences. university of el oued. [visited in 23/01/2018. available from [[email protected]]