Molecules 2001, 6(2), 79-86; doi:10.3390/60100079
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The Effect of Mechanical Wounding on the Composition of Essential Oil from Ocimum Minimum L. Leaves

Dimitrios Zabaras* email and S. Grant Wyllie
Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury, Bourke Str, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 10 September 2000 / Accepted: 30 November 2000 / Published: 16 January 2001
(This article belongs to the Special Issue RACI Natural Products Group Symposium)
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Abstract: The effect of mechanical damage on the composition of the essential oil obtained from eugenol-rich Ocimum minimum leaves was determined over 48 hours. Changes in the levels of five oil-constituents were detected in the first post-wounding day but only one of those components (camphor) exhibited the same behaviour the day after. The levels of eugenol (-4.8%) and linalool (+2.5%) were affected the most by the wounding process. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed the post-wounding response to be independent from the pre-wounding levels of the particular compounds expressing the response and from the overall leaf oil-composition.
Keywords: Ocimum minimum; wounding; essential oil; linalool; eugenol; principal component analysis

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Zabaras, D.; Wyllie, S.G. The Effect of Mechanical Wounding on the Composition of Essential Oil from Ocimum Minimum L. Leaves. Molecules 2001, 6, 79-86.

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Zabaras D, Wyllie SG. The Effect of Mechanical Wounding on the Composition of Essential Oil from Ocimum Minimum L. Leaves. Molecules. 2001; 6(2):79-86.

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Zabaras, Dimitrios; Wyllie, S. G. 2001. "The Effect of Mechanical Wounding on the Composition of Essential Oil from Ocimum Minimum L. Leaves." Molecules 6, no. 2: 79-86.

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