Coumarins are nowadays an important group of organic compounds from natural sources that are useful in a number of fields. Because they possess different pharmacological properties, finding the proper extraction conditions for their separation from plant matrices is a very important step. In this report Pressurized Liquid Extraction (PLE) under different temperature conditions and with differen...

Many invasive species are benign in their native region-are there interactions between their key traits and the new habitats that explain invasion success? The giant perennial herb Heracleum mantegazzianum is a problematic invader in Europe and is also naturalized in North America. We compared its population structure and reproductive behavior in the native (W. Caucasus) and invaded (Czech Repu...

A rapid and sensitive reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for the quantitation of five furanocoumarins (bergaptol, psoralen, bergapten, 6',7'-dihydroxybergamottin, and bergamottin) is developed and validated. HPLC analysis of these five furanocoumarins is performed on a reversed-phase Inertsil ODS-2 column with a particle size of 5 microm. Using only water and acetonit...

As part of our ongoing research on phytoconstituents that can act as promising antimicrobial agents, the essential oils nine selected Apiaceae plants, cultivated in Poland, were studied. The volatiles aerial parts with fruits (herba cum fructi) Silaum silaus, Seseli devenyense, libanotis,Ferula assa-foetida, Glehnia littoralis and Heracleum dulce, addition to (fructi) Torilis japonica Orlaya gr...

INTRODUCTION Coumarins exert many biological effects in humans, animals, and plants, which make the evaluation of their biological activities and study of their role in ethnomedicine highly valued. OBJECTIVES Here, we selected seven plants which have ethnopharmacological use as antimicrobial in Iraq and the aims were to quantify the two structural isomers bergapten and methoxsalen in their se...

Parsley is a biennial aromatic plant from the Apiaceae family, which characterized by an unbranched root, pinnately divided leaves, umbels and schizocarp. It contains essential oil in all parts, with phenylpropane terpene compounds as main components. rich flavonoids other polyphenolic compounds, containing furanocoumarins, carotenoids, polyacetylenes, its leaves are source of vitamins minerals...

The fruits of Heracleum aquilegifolium Wight (Apiaceae) were collected from Western Ghats of the Indian Peninsula. The essential oils were extracted by hydrodistillation. The chemical composition of the essential oils was analysed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Beta-Pinene (22.3%), 1,8-cineole (20.3%), and beta-phellandrene (12.4%) were the main componen...