Chemical Profile and Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oils of (L.) Moench. and (Roth.) G. Don.

This study compared the essential oils (EO) composition of (Bulgarian populations) with that of the cultivated species . The EO composition of and were analyzed via gas chromatography. In general, 75 components were identified in EO and 79 in EO. The predominant constituents in EO were -pinene (34.64-44.35%) and sabinene (10.63-11.1%), which affirmed the examined population as a new chemical type. Overall, the main EO constituents of originating in France, Bosnia and Corsica were neryl acetate (4.04-14.87%) and -himachalene (9.9-10.99%). However, the EOs profile of introduced from the above three countries differed to some extent. D-limonene (5.23%), italicene, -guaiene and neryl acetate (14.87%) predominated in the introduced from France, while -pinene (13.74%), δ-cadinene (5.51%), -cadinene (3.3%), -caryophyllene (3.65%) and -calacorene (1.63%) predominated in plants introduced from Bosnia. The EOs of the plants introduced from France and Corsica had similar chemical composition and antimicrobiological activity.