Phytochemical Analysis of Cultivated and Wild Salvia Palaestina using GC-MS: Acomparative study
Date
2015-12-12
Authors
Sabbobeh, Reem
Hejaz, Hatem
Al-Jaas, Hashem
Jahajha, Ali
Abu-Lafi, Saleh
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Atom and Cell
Abstract
The leaves of cultivated populations of Salvia palaestina (Lamiaceae) were collected from seven different
governorates in Palestine to compare their phytochemical profiles to wild populations. Twenty volatile and
semivolatile components were separated and identified by GC-MS. The major components in all the cultivated
S. palaestina leaves were eucalyptol and camphor excluding one sample that was collected from Jericho. This
sample revealed camphor as the predominant component (30.65%) while in the rest of the cultivated samples,
camphor did not exceed 9.2% level. Moreover, thujone derivatives in Jericho's sample were abundant at high
concentrations (28.9%) in comparison to other populations which did not exceed more than 2%. The wild S.
palaestina leaves, showed eucalyptol as a major component in all samples from different locations with higher
concentration than the cultivated leaves, while the later had a higher amount of camphor.
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Keywords
Salvia palaestina , Phytochemicals , GC-MS , Eucalyptol , Thujone