Composition of essential oil from an annual crop of Hyssopus officinalis grown in indian plains

✍ Scribed by S. N. Garg; A. A. Naqvi; Archana Singh; Govind Ram; Sushil Kumar

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1026(199905/06)14:3<170::aid-ffj808>3.0.co;2-q

✦ Synopsis

The plants of Hyssopus ocinalis ssp. ocinalis genotype raised through seeds sown in early December 1997 ¯owered in May 1998. The essential oil yields obtained upon hydrodistillation of above ground parts, harvested in May, were 0.25% on fresh herbage weight basis and 1.18% on dry herbage weight basis. The GC and GC±MS analysis of the essential oil led to the identi®cation of 21 compounds representing 95.6% of the oil, having seven monoterpene hydrocarbons (32.3%), ®ve oxygenated monoterpenes (60.5%) one phenol (0.2%) and six sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (0.35%). The major constituents of the camphorous odoured oil were pinocamphone (49.1%) 4b-pinene (18.4%) 4isopinocamphone (9.7%).