| Title: | Volatiles of Black Pepper Fruits (Piper nigrum L.) |
| Author(s): | Dosoky NS; Satyal P; Barata LM; da Silva JKR; Setzer WN; |
| Address: | "Aromatic Plant Research Center, Suite 100, Lehi, UT 84043, USA. Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, PA 66075-110, Brazil. Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA" |
| DOI: | 10.3390/molecules24234244 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1420-3049 (Electronic) 1420-3049 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is historically one of the most important spices and herbal medicines, and is now cultivated in tropical regions worldwide. The essential oil of black pepper fruits has shown a myriad of biological activities and is a commercially important commodity. In this work, five black pepper essential oils from eastern coastal region of Madagascar and six black pepper essential oils from the Amazon region of Brazil were obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The major components of the essential oils were alpha-pinene, sabinene, beta-pinene, delta-3-carene, limonene, and beta-caryophyllene. A comparison of the Madagascar and Brazilian essential oils with black pepper essential oils from various geographical regions reported in the literature was carried out. A hierarchical cluster analysis using the data obtained in this study and those reported in the literature revealed four clearly defined clusters based on the relative concentrations of the major components" |
| Keywords: | "Cluster Analysis Fruit/*chemistry Oils, Volatile/*analysis/chemistry Piper nigrum/*chemistry Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis/chemistry Piper nigrum black pepper essential oil composition;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineDosoky, Noura S Satyal, Prabodh Barata, Luccas M da Silva, Joyce Kelly R Setzer, William N eng Switzerland 2019/11/27 Molecules. 2019 Nov 21; 24(23):4244. doi: 10.3390/molecules24234244" |
