Essential oil composition of Thymus serpyllum cultivated in the Kumaon Region of Western Himalaya, India

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 987-988

  Verma, Ram S ^a   Rahman, Laiq Ur ^a   Chanotiya, Chandan S ^a   Verma, Rajesh K ^a   Singh, Anand ^a   Yadav, Anju ^a   Chauhan, Amit ^a   Yadav, Ajai K ^a   Singh, Anil K ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Composition; Essential oil; Lamiaceae; p cymene; Thymol; Thymus serpyllum L.

Indexed keywords

3 CARENE; 4 CYMEN 8 OL; 4 MENTH 2 EN 8 OL; 4 MENTHA 1(7) 8 DIENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA THUJENE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; CAMPHENE; CARVACROL; CARVACROL METHYL ETHER; CARYOPHYLLENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SABINENE; SABINENE HYDRATE; TERPINEN 4 OL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; THYMOL; THYMOL METHYL ETHER; THYMUS SERPYLLUM EXTRACT; THYMYL ACETATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CULTIVAR; DISTILLATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; THYMUS SERPYLLUM; CHEMISTRY; THYME;

LAMIACEAE; THYMUS SERPYLLUM;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDIA; OILS, VOLATILE; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 70349563122     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400723     Document Type: Article

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