dc.contributor.author |
ZAFAR IQBAL |
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dc.contributor.author |
MUHAMMAD AKHTAR |
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dc.contributor.author |
TARIQ MAHMOOD QURESHI |
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dc.contributor.author |
JAVED AKHTER |
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dc.contributor.author |
RASHID AHMAD |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2023-09-28T04:48:39Z |
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dc.date.available |
2023-09-28T04:48:39Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011-04-08 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
AKHTAR, M., AHMAD, R., Qureshi, T. M., IQBAL, Z., & AKHTER, J. (2011). Variation in composition and yield of foliage oil of Eucalyptus polybractea. Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, 33(6), 183. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0253-5106 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/19728 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Eucalyptus polybractea (blue mallee) is the essential oil rich species used in the commercial production of pharmaceutical-grade Eucalyptus oil in Australia. This species was grown at Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad, Pakistan during 2004-08 to investigate the quantity and quality of its foliage oil. The oils were extracted by hydro-distillation method, from the leaves of four year aged ten E. polybractea plants. The data showed a significant intra-species variation in their oil contents (29.3 to 41.8 mg g-1 fresh weight of leaves). Out of ten plants eight contained oil >30 mg g-1 fresh weight of leaves. The components of the extracted oils varied from 12-26 as detected by GC/FID on Carbowax 20 M packed glass column. Among all the oil components, 1, 8-cineole was the major compound (91.7–94.2 %), while the other identified compounds were -pinene (0–1.2 %), β-pinene (0.4–2.3 %), limonene (0.2–1.3 %), p-cymene (1.23–2.75 %), and terpinene-4-ol (0.6–0.92 %). The extracted oils from all the Eucalyptus polybractea plants contained high amount of 1, 8-cineole (>90 %), therefore, classified as species of high quality medicinal oil. |
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The chemical society of Pakistan is an approved society from the PSF. |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Karachi: The Chemical Society Of Pakistan |
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dc.title |
Variation in Composition and Yield of Foliage Oil of Eucalyptus Polybractea |
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dc.type |
Article |
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