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Chemical Composition, Some Allelopathic Aspects, Free-Radical-Scavenging Property and Antifungal Activity of the Volatile Oil of the Flowering Tops of Leucanthemum vulgare Lam.

Elham Magharri, Seyed M. Razavi, Erdevan Ghorbani, Lutfun Nahar and Satyajit D. Sarker

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Agricultural Technologies, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products Research Group, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, England, United Kingdom

Abstract: Hydrodistillation of the ground flowering tops of Leucanthemum vulgare (Asteraceae), collected from Heyran (Ardabil Province, Iran), afforded a greenish yellow oil (yield 0.15%, v/w), which was analyzed by the GC-MS and the GC-FID. The volatile oil comprised 47 compounds representing 90.3% of the oil. Caryophyllene oxide (21.2%), aromadendrene oxide (13.7%), cis-β-farnesene (6.5%), 1-octen-3-yl-acetate (5.6%) and trans-caryophyllene (4.9%) were the major compounds. The volatile oil composition of L. vulgare collected from Iran (present study) was significantly different from that collected from elsewhere, indicating two possible chemotypes. The volatile oil showed free-radical-scavenging, antifungal and allelopathic effects.

Keywords: Leucanthemum vulgare ; Asteraceae ; volatile oil; caryophyllene oxide; DPPH; allelopathic effect. © 2015 ACG Publications. All rights reserved.