Abstract
Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi. and Schinus molle L. are perennial woody plants belonging to the Anacardiaceae family, widely distributed in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and they are broadly used for many applications such as in traditional medicine as an antipyretic, analgesic, depurative, and in the treatment of diseases of the urogenital system as well as culinary and ornamental species. Our work aims to study and compare the chemical composition and the antioxidant and insecticidal activity of the essential oils of the leaves and fruits of the two species of the genus Schinus. The essential oils were characterized by a very spicy aromatic odor, and by the abundance of hydrocarbon monoterpenes in the leaves and fruits of Schinus molle (49.70% and 42.65%), unlike the EOs of the fruits of Schinus terebinthifolius which have a high content in hydrocarbon sesquiterpenes (40.57%). Usually, these oils have shown relatively low antioxidant activity was expressed in IC50; especially, the essential oil of the fruits of S. terebinthifolius revealed a concentration of 3.292 ± 2.82 mg/mL. The evaluation of the insecticidal activity gave good results in the method of exposure of adults of Sitophilus oryzae to EOs by contact; thus, the fruits of Schinus molle are more active against this species of beetle than the other essential oil.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Schinus molle leaf oil contained 49.70% hydrocarbon monoterpenes.
- Taxon
- Schinus molle
Schinus mollee0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Outcome
- hydrocarbon monoterpenese0
- Value
- 49.70%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“hydrocarbon monoterpenes in the leaves and fruits of Schinus molle (49.70% and 42.65%)”
Claim · model-written summary
Schinus molle fruit oil contained 42.65% hydrocarbon monoterpenes.
- Taxon
- Schinus molleSchinus mollee0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Outcome
- hydrocarbon monoterpenese0
- Value
- 42.65%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“hydrocarbon monoterpenes in the leaves and fruits of Schinus molle (49.70% and 42.65%)”
Claim · model-written summary
Schinus terebinthifolius fruit oil contained 40.57% hydrocarbon sesquiterpenes.
Verbatim
e0“fruits of Schinus terebinthifolius which have a high content in hydrocarbon sesquiterpenes (40.57%)”
Claim · model-written summary
The oils generally showed relatively low antioxidant activity.
SchinusOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“these oils have shown relatively low antioxidant activity”
t0“Schinus molle and Schinus terebinthifolius”
Claim · model-written summary
S. terebinthifolius fruit oil had antioxidant IC50 of 3.292 ± 2.82 mg/mL.
Verbatim
e0“essential oil of the fruits of S. terebinthifolius revealed a concentration of 3.292 ± 2.82 mg/mL”
Claim · model-written summary
Schinus molle fruit oil had greater contact insecticidal activity against Sitophilus oryzae than the other essential oil.
- Taxon
- Schinus molleSchinus mollee0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Interactor
- Sitophilus oryzae
Sitophilus oryzaet0pest - Outcome
- more active against this species of beetlee0
- Direction
- more activee0
- Comparator
- the other essential oile0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the fruits of Schinus molle are more active against this species of beetle than the other essential oil”
t0“adults of Sitophilus oryzae to EOs”