Essential oils of Daucus carota subsp. carota of Tunisia obtained by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction.

Nat Prod Commun

Laboratoire de Botanique et de Biologie Végétal, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El-Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.

Published: December 2010

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  • The study focused on the essential oils and supercritical CO2 extracts from wild Daucus carota L. subsp. carota collected from two different sites in Tunisia.
  • Key components of the essential oil from Sejnane included eudesm-7(11)-en-4-ol and sabinene, while the Tunis samples were rich in elemicin and carotol.
  • The antimicrobial effectiveness of these essential oils was tested against several bacterial and fungal strains, revealing that the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) values were all greater than 2.5% (v/v).

Article Abstract

The essential oils and supercritical CO2 extracts of wild Daucus carota L. subsp. carota from two different sites in Tunisia were investigated. The main components of the essential oil of the flowering and mature umbels with seeds from Sejnane were eudesm-7(11)-en-4-ol (8.2 - 8.5%), carotol (3.5 - 5.2%), sabinene (12.0 -14.5%), a-selinene (7.4 - 8.6) and 11-alpha-(H)-himachal-4-en-1-beta-ol (12.7 - 17.4%), whereas the oils from Tunis were predominantly composed of elemicin (31.5 - 35.3%) and carotol (48.0 - 55.7%). The antimicrobial activity of the essential oils were assayed by using the broth dilution method on Escherichia coli ATCC 35218 and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 43300, and clinical strains of Candida albicans and C. tropicalis 1011 RM. The MIC values obtained were all > 2.5% (v/v).

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