Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Aerial Parts of Javanian Pimpinella ruatjan Molk. and Its Molecular Phylogeny

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Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil from Aerial Parts of Javanian Pimpinella ruatjan Molk. and Its Molecular  Phylogeny

 

 

Authors : Agustina D. R. Nurcahyanti, Issam J. Nasser , Frank Sporer , Jürgen Graf  , Nurliani  Bermawie  , Jürgen Reichling and Michael Wink

Publication date: 14 July 2016

Diversity

Volume:  8, 15; doi:10.3390/d8030015

Link: www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity

 

 

Abstract: The species-rich and  diverse genus Pimpinella is mainly distributed in Europe and  Asia; a few species  occur  in Africa.   Yet, the  Javanian Pimpinella, P. pruatjan,  which has  been  used as an  aphrodisiac in Indonesian traditional medicine, was  studied for the  first  time  in the  context of chemical composition, as well  as phylogeny analysis and  antimicrobial activity. We examined the  chemical composition of the  essential oil (EO) from  aerial  parts of P. pruatjan  by gas  liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (GLC-MS). The main  component of EO was (Z)-γ-bisabolene. Several oxygenated monoterpenes, oxygenated sesquiterpenes, and sesquiterpenes were also detected. The genetic relationship of Pimpinella pruatjan  Molk.  to other Pimpinella species  was reconstructed using nucleotide sequences of the nuclear  DNA marker ITS (Internal Transcribed Spacer). P. pruatjan clusters as a sister  group to the  African Pimpinella species.   The EO did  not  exhibit an apparent antimicrobial activity.

 

Keywords:  Pimpinella pruatjan Molk.; essential oil (EO); GLC-MS; ITS; phylogeny; antimicrobial