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Essential oils of Tanacetum species are mainly composed of camphor, borneol, 1,8-cineole, camphene and alpha-pinene.

Taxon: TanacetumTanacetume0
Outcome: essential oilse1
Qualifier: camphor, borneol, 1,8-cineole, camphene, and α-pinenee1

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“Plants of the Tanacetum genus (Asteraceae)”
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“the essential oils of these species are mainly composed of camphor, borneol, 1,8-cineole, camphene, and α-pinene”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 809–921

Title

An Overview of the Pharmacological Applications and Essential Oil Composition of the Tanacetum genus

Hamzeh Amiri; Shirin Ahmadi; Mohammad Mehrnia The Natural Products Journal 2026. doi:10.2174/0122103155441946260428065726

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More than 33 biological activities have been reported for Tanacetum species, with antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anticancer, neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects receiving the most attention.

Taxon: TanacetumTanacetume0
Outcome: biological activitiese2
Value: More than 33e2
Qualifier: antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anticancer, neuroprotective, and anti-inflammatory effects receiving the most attentione3

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“Plants of the Tanacetum genus (Asteraceae)”
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“More than 33 different biological activities have been reported in pharmacological studies”
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“antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anticancer, neuroprotective, and anti-inflammatory effects receiving the most attention”
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Title

An Overview of the Pharmacological Applications and Essential Oil Composition of the Tanacetum genus

Hamzeh Amiri; Shirin Ahmadi; Mohammad Mehrnia The Natural Products Journal 2026. doi:10.2174/0122103155441946260428065726

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The therapeutic benefits of Tanacetum species are largely attributable to their essential oil components and sesquiterpene lactones.

Taxon: Tanacetum speciesTanacetume5
Compound: essential oil components and sesquiterpene lactonese5
Outcome: therapeutic benefitse5

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“the therapeutic benefits of Tanacetum species are largely attributable to their essential oil components and sesquiterpene lactones”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1353–1484

Title

An Overview of the Pharmacological Applications and Essential Oil Composition of the Tanacetum genus

Hamzeh Amiri; Shirin Ahmadi; Mohammad Mehrnia The Natural Products Journal 2026. doi:10.2174/0122103155441946260428065726

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Tanacetum forbs translocated large amounts of contaminants above ground.

Taxon: TanacetumTanacetume0
Outcome: contaminants above grounde0
Direction: large amountse0

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“The ruderal and more acquisitive Tanacetum forbs translocated large amounts of contaminants above ground, which may be of concern in a phytostabilisation context.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1313–1475

Title

Responses to Airborne Ozone and Soilborne Metal Pollution in Afforestation Plants with Different Life Forms

Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg; Rodolphe Schläpfer; Pierre Vollenweider Plants 2023. doi:10.3390/plants12163011

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Intervention effect Ozone and metal contamination elicited similar stress reactions across three species.
Observation Ozone and metal contamination produced injuries along their penetration routes.
Intervention effect Metal contamination caused more severe whole-plant injuries than ozone.
Observation Few interactions were observed between metal and ozone treatments.
Observation Picea trees showed the highest stress tolerance.
Observation Acer trees were most sensitive to both stress factors.
Recommendation Slow-return species may be useful for managing polluted sites and confining contaminants below ground.

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All Tanacetum species exhibited potent antioxidant activity.

Taxon: Tanacetum speciesTanacetume0
Outcome: potent antioxidant activitiese0

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“All Tanacetum species exhibited potent antioxidant activities”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 913–974

Title

TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVES, PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF SOME WILD TANACETUM TAXA FROM TURKEY

Emel DIRAZ-YILDIRIM; Sengul KARAMAN; Muhittin KULAK; et al. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia 2021. doi:10.24193/subbchem.2021.4.08

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Observation T. cilicicum had the highest chlorogenic acid and cynarin amounts.
Observation T. densum subsp. amani had the highest quinic acid amount.
Observation T. argenteum subsp. argenteum leaves had the highest parthenolide amount.
Observation T. argenteum subsp. argenteum had the highest tryptophan and serotonin.
Observation T. densum subsp. amani had the highest melatonin content.
Observation T. densum subsp. amani flowers showed higher DPPH activity than BHT.
Observation T. cilicicum leaves and flowers had the highest total phenolic content.
Observation Phenolic profiles of three taxa were reported for the first time.
Observation Tryptophan derivatives of the species were reported for the first time.

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Authors report (E)-nerolidol as a major compound in Tanacetum for the first time.

Taxon: TanacetumTanacetume0
Outcome: (E)-nerolidole0
Qualifier: for the first timee0

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“(E)-nerolidol was found in the Tanacetum species as the major compound for the first time”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1039–1128

Title

Essential oil composition of different parts of Tanacetum cilicicum (Boiss.) Grierson

Ali Şen; M. Kürkçüoğlu; Leyla Bitiş; et al. DergiPark (Istanbul University) 2020

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Observation Capitula oil contained forty identified compounds representing 99% of oil.
Observation Aerial-part oil contained thirty-two identified compounds representing 94.4% of oil.
Observation Camphor made up 28.8% of capitula oil.
Observation (E)-nerolidol made up 16.9% of capitula oil.
Observation trans-chrysanthenyl acetate made up 12.8% of capitula oil.
Observation 1,8-cineole made up 8.9% of capitula oil.
Observation trans-chrysanthenyl acetate made up 22.2% of aerial-part oil.
Observation borneol made up 19.4% of aerial-part oil.
Observation camphor made up 11.2% of aerial-part oil.
Observation 1,8-cineole made up 10.2% of aerial-part oil.
Observation (E)-nerolidol made up 9.2% of aerial-part oil.
Observation Both oils were rich in oxygenated monoterpenes and oxygenated sesquiterpenes.

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Essential oil yields across four Tanacetum species ranged from 0.25 to 0.55 ml/100 g dry material.

Taxon: Tanacetum speciesTanacetume0
Outcome: Essential oil yieldse0
Value: 0.25 to 0.55 ml/100 g dry materiale0

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“Essential oil yields of four Tanacetum species ranged from 0.25 to 0.55 ml/100 g dry material”
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Title

Chemical Composition of Essential Oils of Four Tanacetum Species from the Alpine Regions in Iran

Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 2019. doi:10.1080/0972060x.2019.1651676

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The four Tanacetum species differed chemically.

Taxon: Tanacetum speciesTanacetume0
Outcome: chemical differencese0

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“chemical differences among the four Tanacetum species”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 378–431

Title

Chemical Composition of Essential Oils of Four Tanacetum Species from the Alpine Regions in Iran

Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 2019. doi:10.1080/0972060x.2019.1651676

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The four species’ oils were rich in oxygenated monoterpenes.

Taxon: Tanacetum speciesTanacetume0
Outcome: rich in oxygenated monoterpenese0
Setting: southwestern Irane0

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“The essential oils of the four studied Tanacetum species sourced in the alpine region of southwestern Iran were rich in oxygenated monoterpenes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 775–918

Title

Chemical Composition of Essential Oils of Four Tanacetum Species from the Alpine Regions in Iran

Abdollah Ghasemi Pirbalouti Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 2019. doi:10.1080/0972060x.2019.1651676

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All Pyrethrum species were transferred to Tanacetum.

Taxon: TanacetumTanacetume0
Outcome: Pyrethrum species were transformed to the Tanacetum genuse0

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“all of the Pyrethrum species were transformed to the Tanacetum genus”
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Title

About the genus of Tanacetum L. (Asteraceae) in the flora of Azerbaijan

S.J. Mustafayeva; T.A. Gasumova; Z.S. Aliyeva Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2019. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7391230

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Observation Tanacetum is represented by 27 species in two sections.
Method / resource A new identification key for Tanacetum species was proposed.

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