Düzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi (Jan 2015)
Essential Oil Composition of Ferula Orientalis L. from Different Localities of Turkey and a Chemotaxonomic Approach
Abstract
In this study, essential oil composition of Ferula orientalis L. from three different localities of Turkey have been studied to determine chemotaxonomy based on essential oil characters. For this purpose, aerial parts of plant samples were investigated by HS-SPME/GC-MS. As a result, 33, 29, 30 compounds were identified in F. orientalis from Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya localities accounting from 92.2%, 96.9%, 96.3% of the whole oil, respectively. In all localities a-pinene, camphene, b-pinene, sabinene, naphthalene and b-phellandrene were detected among the main compounds. It is noteworthy that, in all localities a-pinene and b-phellandrene were found to be most percentange of Bingol (28.4%-5.6%), Elazig (35.5%-6.4%), Malatya (27.7%-7.4%) localities and a-pinene and b-phellandrene were detected the chemotypes of F. orientalis.
