Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Jun 2017)

Volatile compounds and palynological analysis from pollen pots of stingless bees from the mid-north region of Brazil

  • José de Sousa Lima Neto,
  • José Arimatéia Dantas Lopes,
  • José Machado Moita Neto,
  • Sidney Gonçalo de Lima,
  • Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da Luz,
  • Antônia Maria das Graças Lopes Citó

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s2175-97902017000214093
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 2

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ABSTRACT Samburá is the botanical pollen nectar agglutinated by salivary secretions of bees. Stingless bee pollen samples were collected in three periods of the year in Monsenhor Gil town, PI, Brazil, for extraction of volatile constituents by different techniques, analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and the palynological analysis used to identify the dominant pollen. Among the volatile compounds identified, kaur-16-ene, methyl and ethyl hexadecanoate, methyl linoleate and heneicosane were identified more frequently in the studied parameters: period of sample collection and extraction techniques used. The palynological analysis identified the pollen of Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Benth. as the dominant pollen in all samples studied.

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