Characterization and antioxidant activity of essential oils from fresh and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus tereticornis

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6962-6966

  Singh, Harminder P ^a   Mittal, Sunil ^a   Kaur, Shalinder ^a   Batish, Daizy R ^a   Kohli, Ravinder K ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red gum); Fresh and decaying leaf oil; GC MS analyses; Monoterpenoids

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; SCAVENGER; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EUCALYPTUS; PLANT LEAF;

EUCALYPTUS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS;

EID: 68249111656     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf9012407     Document Type: Article

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