Chemistry and antigerminative activity of essential oils and monoterpenoids from mediterranean plants

Current Bioactive Compounds

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-49

  de Martino, Laura ^a   Mancini, Emilia ^a   Marandino, Aurelio ^a   de Almeida, Luiz Fernando Rolim ^b   de Feo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antigerminative activity; Aromatic plants; Chemistry; Essential oils; Mediterranean flora; Monoterpenes

Indexed keywords

ABSINTHOL; ANETHOLE; BETA PINENE; BORNEOL; BOURBONENE; CARVACROL; CARVEOL; CARVONE; CARYOPHYLLENE; CARYOPHYLLENE OXIDE; CINEOLE; CITRAL; CITRONELLAL; COPAENE; CUMINALDEHYDE; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; FORMIC ACID; GERANYL ACETATE; HUMULENE; ISOMENTHONE; MONOTERPENOID DERIVATIVE; PULEGONE; SESQUITERPENE; SESQUITERPENOID; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TERPINEOL; THYMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERBENONE;

ANTIGERMINATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BASIL; CARAWAY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERMANDER; GERMINATION; HELICHRYSUM; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; IN VITRO STUDY; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADISH; ROOT GROWTH; SALVIA OFFICINALIS; THYME; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84871693414     PISSN: 15734072     EISSN: 18756646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340712799828179     Document Type: Article

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