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JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 250-259Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0972060X.2010.10643819
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Hedychium coronarium; Hedychium spicatum; essential oil; 1-8-cineole; linalool; antibacterial activity
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The essential oil obtained from rhizomes of Hedychium coronarium Koenig and Hedychium spicatum Buch-Ham. growing wildly in Kumaun region of central Himalaya were analysed by GC and GC-MS. Forty six compounds representing 98.7 % of H. coronarium oil were identified. The main components identified were linalool (29.3 %), limonene (20.3 %), trans-meta-mentha,2,8-diene (12.9 %), gamma-terpinene (8.9 %) and 10-epi-gamma-eudismol (3.8 %). Thirty six compounds accounting 87.4 % of H. spicatum oil were identified. The major constituents were 1,8-cineole (17.6 %), alpha-eudesmol (17 %), 10-epi-gamma-eudismol (9.7%), delta-cadinene (7.5 %), cubenol (6.9 %), germacrene D-4-ol (6.8 %) and gamma-cadinene (5.4 %). H. coronarium oil was rich in monoterpene hydrocarbons while H. spicatum oil was rich in suquiterpene alcohols. Both the oils showed antibacterial activity against five pathogenic bacteria, viz. Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruoginosa and Proteus vulgaris.
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