Phytochemical screening and chemical variability in volatile oils of aerial parts of Morinda morindoides. Issue 19 (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kiazolu, J. Boima; Intisar, Azeem; Zhang, Lingyi; Wang, Yun; Zhang, Runsheng; Wu, Zhongping; Zhang, Weibing
• Is Part Of: Natural product research. Volume 30:Issue 19(2016)
• Page Start: 2249
• Page End: 2252
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Jologbo -- aerial parts -- volatile constituents -- phytol -- similarity analysis; Natural products -- Periodicals; Natural products -- Research -- Periodicals; Biological Factors -- Periodicals; Biological Products -- Periodicals; 547
• DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2016.1154058
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-6419

Abstract

Abstract: Morinda morindoides is an important Liberian traditional medicine for the treatment of malaria, fever, worms etc. The plant was subjected to integrated approaches including phytochemical screening and gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analyses. Phytochemical investigation of the powdered plant revealed the presence of phenolics, tannins, flavonoids, saponins, terpenes, steroidal compounds and volatile oil. Steam distillation followed by GC–MS resulted in the identification of 47 volatiles in its aerial parts: 28 were in common including various bioactive volatiles. Major constituents of leaves were phytol (43.63%), palmitic acid (8.55%) and geranyl linalool (6.95%) and stem were palmitic acid (14.95%), eicosane (9.67%) and phytol (9.31%), and hence, a significant difference in the percentage composition of aerial parts was observed. To study seasonal changes, similarity analysis was carried out by calculating correlation coefficient ( r ) and vector angle cosine ( z ) that were more than 0.91 for stem-to-stem and leaf-to-leaf batches indicating considerable consistency. Abstract :