2019/07/01 by Anna Lis, Agata Swaczyna, Agnieszka Krajewska +1 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · #Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity #Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis #Natural product bioactivities and synthesis #Sabinene #Botany #Essential oil #Cultivar #Thuja #Chemistry #Horticulture #Biology #Limonene
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/1934578x19862904
openalex publication_date 2019/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The essential oils from different parts of Thuja plicata and its cultivar varieties “Fastigiata”, “Kornik,” and “Zebrina” were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and GC/mass spectrometry. More than 80 compounds were identified. The oils from leaves, twigs with leaves, and twigs without leaves contained mainly α-thujone (52.1%-59.2%), fenchone (10.0%-11.3%), and beyerene (3.7%-9.5%), whereas in the cone oil there were α-thujone (35.6%), sabinene (24.0%), and α-pinene (8.3%). The main constituents of the oils from twigs with leaves of “Fastigiata,” “Zebrina,” and “Kornik” cultivars were α-thujone (76.2%, 72.5%, and 67.4%, respectively) and β-thujone (7.6%, 6.2%, and 4.9%, respectively). The oils from cultivars contained more thujones and less fenchone and diterpenes in comparison with T. plicata oil.