Chemical Composition of Essential Oil from Italian Populations of <em>Artemisia alba</em> Turra (Asteraceae)

Abstract

The use of essential oils as chemotaxonomic markers could be useful for the classification of <em>Artemisia</em> species and to caracterize biodiversity in the different populations. An analysis of the chemical composition of four essential oils from Italian populations of <em>Artemisia alba</em> Turra (collected in Sicily, Marche and Abruzzo) was investigated. In this paper an in depth study of the significant differences observed in the composition of these oils is reported.

Keywords

• &lt;em&gt;Artemisia alba&lt;/em&gt;
• essential oil
• biodiversity
• α-bisabolone oxide A
• davanone D