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- Jasmines are cultivated for their fragrant flowers and essential oils, with the study focusing on the volatile compounds from a specific cultivar, Ramanthapuram Gundumalli, and its artificially evolved variants.
- Using GC-MS analysis, the research identified key terpenes and sesquiterpenes (like Linalool and D-Limonene) and benzenoids (such as benzyl acetate) in the flowers, revealing higher concentrations in the variants compared to the wild-type parent plant.
- The findings suggest that these enhanced volatile compounds from the polyploid variants could boost the loose flower and perfume industries and serve as unique metabolic signatures for identifying these new variants.
Article Abstract
Jasmines are commercially grown for their fragrant flowers and essential oil. The present study investigates the composition of the volatile compounds from flowers of cv. Ramanthapuram Gundumalli and its variants that were evolved through colchicine. GC-MS analysis revealed that the flowers possessed major terpenes and sesquiterpenes such as Linalool, α-farnesene, germacrene-D, geranyl Linalool and D-Limonene as well as benzenoids (including benzyl acetate, benzyl alcohol and (Z)-Cinnamyl benzoate). The relative abundance of these volatile compounds in the variants have shown higher percentages than their wild-type (parent) which indicates that the variants possessed enhanced volatile composition. The new variations generated in floral volatile composition of through polyploidisation are likely to have significant impact on the loose flower and perfume industries. Besides, the identified unique compounds can also be used as metabolic signatures to characterise the novel variants.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2023.2298723 | DOI Listing |
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