Chemical analysis of edible aromatic plants growing in Tanzania

Food Chemistry

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1711-1717

  Vagionas, K ^a   Ngassapa, O ^b   Runyoro, D ^b   Graikou, K ^a   Gortzi, O ^c   Chinou, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Antiradical activity; Asteraceae; Essential oil composition; Lamiaceae; Leucas glabrata; Plectranthus laxiflorus; Salvia nilotica; Vernonia smithiana

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BORNYL ACETATE; BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE; BUTYLCRESOL; CAMPHOR; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; CYMENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLUCYTOSINE; LEUCAS GLABRATA EXTRACT; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MENTHONE; NETILMICIN; PINENE; PIPERITONE; PLANT EXTRACT; PLECTRANTHUS LAXIFLORUS EXTRACT; PULEGONE; SALVIA NILOTICA EXTRACT; SANGUINARINE; SPATHULENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERNONIA SMITHIANA EXTRACT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LEUCAS GLABRATA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLECTRANTHUS LAXIFLORUS; SALVIA NILOTICA; TANZANIA; VERNONIA SMITHIANA;

ASTERACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; LAMIACEAE; LEUCAS; PLECTRANTHUS LAXIFLORUS; POSIBACTERIA; SALVIA NILOTICA; VERNONIA;

EID: 34447622644     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2007.05.029     Document Type: Article

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