Composition and antimicrobial activity of the leaf and twig oils of Litsea mushaensis and L. linii from Taiwan

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1823-1828

  Ho, Chen Lung ^a,b   Wang, Eugene I Chen ^a   Tseng, Yen Hsueh ^a   Liao, Pei Chun ^c   Lin, Chien Nan ^c   Chou, Ju Ching ^c   Su, Yu Chang ^a  

^a TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anti wood decay fungal activity; Antimicrobial activity; Essential oil; Lauraceae; Litsea linii; Litsea mushaensis; cadinol; eudesmol; cadinol

Indexed keywords

ALPH AMORPHENE; ALPHA CADINOL; ALPHA PHELLANDRENE; ALPHA SELINENE; ARISTOLOCHENE; BETA EUDESMOL; BORNEOL; BOURBONENE; CAMPHENE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CINEOLE; DELTA CADINENE; ESSENTIAL OIL; GAMMA MUUROLENE; GENTAMICIN; HUMULENE; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; MYRCENE; NYSTATIN; OCIMENE; PARA CYMENE; PINENE; SELINENE; SPATHULENOL; T CADINOL; TERPINENE; TERPINOLENE; TETRACYCLINE; TRICYCLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS CEREUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENZITES SULPHUREUS; LITSEA LINII; LITSEA MUSHAENSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHAEOLUS SCHWEINTIZII; PHANEOCHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TAIWAN; TRAMETES VERSICOLOR; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

LAURACEAE; LITSEA;

EID: 78751675127     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1000501127     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Yang YP, Liu HY. (1999) Manual of Taiwan vascular plants. Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taipei.
2. Ho CL, Ou JP, Liu YC, Hung CP, Tsai MC, Liao PC, Wang EIC, Chen YL, Su YC. (2010) Compositions and in vitro anticancer activities of the leaf and fruit oils of Litsea cubeba from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 5, 617-620.
3. Ho CL, Hsu KP, Tseng YH, Lee PY, Wang EIC, Narumon J, Chien TC, Dong WC, Su YC. (2010) Composition and antifungal activities of the leaf essential oil of Litsea coreana from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 5, 1677-1680.
4. Ho CL, Wang EIC, Hsu KP, Lee PY, Su YC. (2009) Composition and antimicrobial activities of the leaf essential oil of Litsea kostermansii from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 4, 1123-1126.
5. Ho CL, Wang EIC, Lee PY, Su YC. (2009) Composition and antimicrobial activities of the leaf essential oil of Litsea nakaii from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 4, 865-868.
6. Muhammed AM, Subbu RM, Leopold J, Mohamed SP. (2008) Composition and antimicrobial analysis of the essential oil of Litsea laevigata Nees. (Lauraceae). Natural Product Communications, 3, 1069-1072.
7. Van den Dool H, Kratz PD. (1963) A generalization of the retention index system including linear temperature programmed gas-liquid partition chromatography. Journal of Chromatography, 11, 463-471.
8. bin Ahmad F, bin Jantan I, Abu Bakar B, bin Ahmad AS. (2005) A comparative study of the composition of the leaf oils of three Litsea species from Borneo. Journal of Essential Oil Research, 17, 323-326
9. Vallverdu C, Vila R, Cáceres A, Cañigueral S. (2005) Composition of the essential oil from leaves of Litsea guatemalensis. Flavour and Fragrance Journal, 20, 415-418. (Pubitemid 40959927)
10. Ho CL, Wang EIC, Wei XT, Lu SY, Su YC. (2008) Composition and bioactivities of the leaf essential oils of Cinnamomum subavenium Miq. from Taiwan. Journal of Essential Oil Research, 20, 328-334.
11. Ho CL, Liao PC, Wang EIC, Dong WZ, Su YC. (2010) Composition and antimicrobial and anti-wood-decay fungal activities of the leaf essential oils of Machilus pseudolongifolia from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 5, 1143-1146.
12. Kondo R, Imamura H. (1986) Antifungal compounds in heartwood extractives of hinoki (Chamaecyparis obtusa Endl.). Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society, 32, 213-217.
13. Kalemba D, Kunicka A. (2003) Antibacterial and antifungal properties of essential oils. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 10, 813-829. (Pubitemid 36443237)
14. Kusuma IW, Ogawa T, Itoh K, Tachibana S. (2004) Isolation and identification of an antifungal sesquiterpene alcohol from amboyna wood. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 7, 1735-1740.
15. Wang SY, Wu CL, Chu FH, Chien SC, Kuo YH, Shyur LF, Chang ST. (2005) Chemical composition and antifungal activities of essential oil isolated from Chamaecyparis formosensis Matsum. wood. Holzforschung, 59, 295-299. (Pubitemid 40958802)
16. Ho CL, Hsu KP, Wang EIC, Lin CY, Su YC. (2010) Composition and anti-wood-decay fungal activities of the leaf essential oil of Machilus philippinensis from Taiwan. Natural Product Communications, 5, 337-340.
17. Mori M, Aoyama M, Doi S. (2000) Antifungal constituents in the bark of Magnolia obovata Thunb. Journal of Hokkaido Forest Product Research Institute, 14, 1-5.
18. Adams RP. (2001) Identification of Essential Oil Components by Gas Chromatography/Quadruple Mass Spectroscopy, Allured, Carol Stream, IL.
19. Massada Y. (1976) Analysis of Essential Oil by Gas Chromatography and Spectrometry, Wiley, New York.
20. Baron EJ, Finegold SM. (1990) Methods for testing antimicrobial effectiveness. In: Diagnostic Microbiology. Stephanie M. (Ed.). Baltimore, Mosby. 171-194.
21. NCCLS (1999) National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Performance standards for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, 9th International Supplement, Wayne PA., M100-S9.
22. Su YC, Ho CL, Wang EIC, Chang ST. (2006) Antifungal activities and chemical compositions of essential oils from leaves of four Eucalypts. Taiwan Journal of Forest Science, 21, 49-61.