In cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) the enzyme (+)-delta-cadinene synthase (CDNS) catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of cadinane-type sesquiterpenes, such as gossypol, that provide constitutive and inducible protection against pests and diseases. A cotton cDNA clone encoding CDNS (cdn1-C4) was isolated from developing embryos and functionally characterized. Southern analysis show...

The trial was conducted to explore the essential oil production potential of Murraya exotica under Faisalabad conditions through various extraction methods viz. solvent extraction, steam distillation, and supercritical fluid extraction (SCFE). SCFE was found to be the most efficient method for the extraction of good quality essential oil from M. exotica flowers. Gas chromatography-mass spectrom...

A steam distilled volatile oil obtained from the leaves of Chrysanthemum indicum Linn. (FamilyCompositae) was analyzed by capillary GC and GC-MS. The volatile oil mainly comprises of thirty nine (39) components out of which thirty one (31) constituents comprising 82.6% of the oil were identified. The volatile oil mainly contains monoterpenes (48.1%). Isoborneol, a monoterpene, was the predomina...

Lippia dulcis is a sweet-tasting, woody herb but the sweetness is often mixed with a camphorous taste. Lippia dulcis oil from Brazil was found to be low in camphor (trace), whereas the oil from Mexico had considerable camphor (33.9%). The Lippia oil from Brazil was high in 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one (10.5%), α-copaene (8.6%), (E)-caryophyllene (10.6%), bicyclogermacrene (6.6%), δ-cadinene (7.2%), ...

A new cotton variant with reduced levels of terpenoid aldehydes (sesquiterpenoids and sesterterpenoids (heliocides)) was isolated from the progeny of hemizygous cotton (Gossypium hirsutum cv. Coker 312) transformed with antisense (+)-delta-cadinene synthase cDNA. Southern analysis of leaf DNA digested with HindIII, Pst or KpnI restriction endonucleases did not detect any antisense cdn1-C1 DNA i...

Luculia plants are famed ornamentals with sweetly fragrant flowers. Luculia yunnanensis Hu is an endemic plant from Yunnan Province, China. Headspace-solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) was used to identify the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of the different flower development stages of L. yunnanensis for the evaluation of floral volatile polymorp...

Global cottonseed production can potentially provide the protein requirements for half a billion people per year; however, it is woefully underutilized because of the presence of toxic gossypol within seed glands. Therefore, elimination of gossypol from cottonseed has been a long-standing goal of geneticists. Attempts were made to meet this objective by developing so-called "glandless cotton" i...

Isolation of volatile and fixed oils from dried berries of Laurus nobilis L. from Tunisia have been obtained by supercritical fractioned extraction with carbon dioxide. Extraction experiments were carried out at a temperature of 40 degrees C and pressures of 90 and 250 bar. The extraction step performed at 90 bar produced a volatile fraction mainly composed of (E)-beta-ocimene (20.9%), 1,8-cine...

Bioactive compounds from plants play an important role in slowing many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, by inhibiting cholinesterase enzymes. Studies have shown that oxidative stress is associated with the development of disease. In traditional medicine Bosnia and Herzegovina, Teucrium montanum used to treat numerous diseases. The chemical composition biological activity...

The objective of this study was to determine volatile compounds, color parameters and sensory characteristics in raw sheep milk cheeses ripened up 270 days using different packaging materials such as goat’s skin bag or plastic barrel. Volatile compounds extracted by solid-phase microextraction were separated, identified quantified a gas chromatography (GC)-mass spectrometry detector (MS). Butan...