THE VARIABILITY OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL COMPOSITION IN THE SAGE COLLECTION OF THE GENEBANK GATERSLEBEN

Authors

  • A. Lamien-Meda
  • C. L. Schmiderer
  • U. Lohwasser
  • A. Börner
  • Ch Franz
  • J. Novak

Abstract

Genebanks are valuable resources for ex-situ conservation and breeding of economic plants and wild plant relatives. Analysing plant secondary compounds of such collections delivers useful information about the variability (heterogeneity) in the collection and enables plant breeders to pre-select accessions when breeding for specific plant secondary compounds like essential oil content and/or composition. For garden sage (Salvia officinalis L.), 10 individual plants of each of the 19 accessions available in the genebank were analysed for their essential oil content and composition. The essential oil content was in the range of 0.8% to 2.4%. The essential oil composition was comparable to results already published with the exception of two accessions, which were very low in α-thujone (3%) and β-thujone (<1%), representing a new chemotype in Salvia officinalis.

Author Biography

A. Lamien-Meda

University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Applied Botany and Pharmacognosy, Department of Farm Animal and Public Health in Veterinary Medicine, Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210, Vienna, Austria. Aline_meda@hotmail.com, Aline.Lamien-Meda@vu-wien.ac.at

Published

2009-05-04

How to Cite

Lamien-Meda, A., Schmiderer, C. L., Lohwasser, U., Börner, A., Franz, C., & Novak, J. (2009). THE VARIABILITY OF THE ESSENTIAL OIL COMPOSITION IN THE SAGE COLLECTION OF THE GENEBANK GATERSLEBEN. African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, 6, 487. Retrieved from https://journals.athmsi.org/index.php/ajtcam/article/view/946

Issue

ABSTRACTS OF THE WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS, CAPE TOWN NOVEMBER 2008

Section

Conference Abstracts

License

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution CC.

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. View License Deed | View Legal Code Authors can also self-archive their manuscripts immediately and enable public access from their institution's repository. This is the version that has been accepted for publication and which typically includes author-incorporated changes suggested during submission, peer review and in editor-author communications.