Characterization and Phytotoxicity Assessment of Essential Oils from Plant Byproducts.
Antonella SmeriglioDomenico TrombettaLaura CornaraMarco ValussiVincenzo De FeoLucia CaputoPublished in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2019)
The present work describes the chemical characterization and the phytotoxicity assessment of essential oils (EOs) obtained from spent materials or pruning waste of four plant species: Zingiber officinale Roscoe used in the juicing industry, Pistacia vera L. var. Bronte used in the food industry, discarded material of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L. var. Futura 75), and pruning waste from Cupressus sempervirens L. The phytochemical profile of the EOs was evaluated by gas chromatographic flame ionization detection (GC-FID) and GC-MS analyses, which highlighted the presence of several compounds with a wide range of biological activities. Among them, application possibilities in agriculture were evaluated by studying the phytotoxic activity in vitro against germination and initial radical growth of several seeds such as Raphanus sativus L., Lepidium sativum L., Lactuca sativa L., Solanum lycopersicum L., Lolium multiflorum Lam., and Portulaca oleracea L.
Keyphrases
- heavy metals
- gas chromatography
- climate change
- sewage sludge
- drinking water
- municipal solid waste
- room temperature
- mass spectrometry
- risk assessment
- life cycle
- simultaneous determination
- label free
- human health
- high resolution
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- carbon dioxide
- tandem mass spectrometry
- clinical evaluation
- arabidopsis thaliana
- plant growth