Essential Oils of Three Balkan Abies Species: Chemical Profiles, Antimicrobial Activity and Toxicity toward Artemia salina and Drosophila melanogaster

This study focused on the essential oils (EOs) isolated from needles with twigs of three indigenous Balkan Abies species (A. alba, A. × borisii‐regis and A. cephalonica) regarding their chemical composition, antimicrobial activity and toxicity toward crustaceans and insects. Even though distinct phy...

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Published in:Chemistry & biodiversity 2022-06, Vol.19 (6), p.e202200235-n/a
Main Authors: Mitić, Zorica S., Stojanović‐Radić, Zorica Z., Jovanović, Snežana Č., Cvetković, Vladimir J., Nikolić, Jelena S., Ickovski, Jovana D., Mitrović, Tatjana Lj, Nikolić, Biljana M., Zlatković, Bojan K., Stojanović, Gordana S.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Abies
Antiinfectives and antibacterials
Antimicrobial activity
Antimicrobial agents
Artemia
Artemia salina
Bioassays
Chemical activity
Chemical composition
Crustaceans
Drosophila melanogaster
essential oil
Essential oils
Fruit flies
Indigenous species
Insects
Lethality
Oils & fats
Pine needles
Prolongation
Species
Toxicity
Volatile compounds
Volatiles
α-Pinene
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Summary:This study focused on the essential oils (EOs) isolated from needles with twigs of three indigenous Balkan Abies species (A. alba, A. × borisii‐regis and A. cephalonica) regarding their chemical composition, antimicrobial activity and toxicity toward crustaceans and insects. Even though distinct phytochemical profiles of dominant volatiles were revealed for each species, β‐pinene and α‐pinene represented the first two major volatiles in all three EOs. Antimicrobial activity of EOs has shown inhibitory effect against all 17 studied strains (ATCC and respiratory isolates) in the range of 0.62–20.00 mg/mL (MICs). Further, all three EOs exhibited strong toxicity (LC50
ISSN:1612-1872
1612-1880
DOI:10.1002/cbdv.202200235