Thymol and carvacrol production from leaves of wild Palestinian Majorana syriaca

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3914-3918

  Abu Lafi, Saleh ^a   Odeh, Imad ^a   Dewik, Hasan ^a   Qabajah, Mohammed ^a   Hanus L O ^b   Dembitsky, V M ^b  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carvacrol; Majorana syriaca; Production; Thymol

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; DISTILLATION; HARVESTING; HYDROXYLATION; METABOLITES;

CARVACROL; MAJORANA SYRIACA; THYMOL;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

2 ISOBUTYLTHIAZOLE; ALPHA DAMASCENONE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BETA DAMASCENONE; BETA PINENE; CAMPHENE; CARVACROL; DELTA 2 CARENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MAJORANA SYRIACA EXTRACT; MYRCENE; NORDAVANONE; OCIMENE; OCTANOL; OCTANOL ACETATE; OMEGA CYMENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SABINENE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPINENE; TERPINOLENE; THYMOL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT; YLANGENE; TERPENE;

CULTIVATION; DISTILLATION; HARVESTING; HYDROXYLATION; METABOLITES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; DISTILLATION; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HARVESTING; HERB; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; DRUG HYDROXYLATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJORANA SYRIACA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; WILD TYPE; CHEMISTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAST; THYME;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE;

LAMIACEAE; MAJORANA; THYMUS VULGARIS;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE EAST; MONOTERPENES; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; THYMOL; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 43849098238     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2007.07.042     Document Type: Article

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