Essential Oil Analysis and Antimicrobial Activities of Anthemis marschalliana ssp. pectinata and Anthemis cretica ssp. argaea from Turkey.

Abstract

The present work describes chemical composition and antimicrobial
activity of the essential oils of Anthemis marschalliana Wild ssp.
pectinata (Boiss) Grierson and Anthemis cretica L ssp. argaea (Boiss
& Bal) Grierson. The essential oils were obtained from all the parts of
the plant by hydrodistillation and analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS.
Forty two and forty four components representing 88.6 and 89.6 % of
the total oils were characterized and the main components of these species
were found to be spathulenol (21.7 %),  humulene epoxide II (5.9 %),
β-pinene (4.8 %) and α-bisabolol (4.6 %) from A. marschalliana ssp.
pectinata and β-pinene (14.6 %), α-pinene (14.3 %), borneol (10.6 %)
and β-acorenol (6.5 %) from A. cretica ssp. argae, respectively. The
antimicrobial activities of the isolated essential oils of the plants were
also investigated and they showed moderate antibacterial activity against
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Bacillus cereus.