Chemical composition and larvicidal activity of Eugenia triquetra essential oil from Venezuelan Andes

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 965-968

  Mora, Flor D ^a   Avila, Jorge L ^b   Rojas, Luis B ^a   Ramírez, Rosslyn ^a   Usubillaga, Alfredo ^a   Segnini, Samuel ^b   Carmona, Juan ^a   Silva, Bladimiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Essential oil; Eugenia triquetra O. Berg; Larvicidal activity; Limonene; Linalool; Myrtaceae; Pinene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CADINOL; ALPHA CUBEBENE; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA TERPINOLENE; ALPHA THUJENE; AROMADENDRENE OXIDE; BETA PINENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; COPAENE; CUBENOL; DELTA CADINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENIA TRIQUETRA EXTRACT; HUMULENE; LARVICIDAL AGENT; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; LINALOOL OXIDE; MYRCENE; PALMITIC ACID; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; PLANT EXTRACT; SPATHULENOL; TERPINENE; TERPINEOL; TERPINEOL 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTILLATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; EUGENIA; EUGENIA TRIQUETRA; HYDRODISTILLATION; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LC 50; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; VENEZUELA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 77954094123     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000500633     Document Type: Article

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