International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 1
First page : (729) Last page : (734)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2559
Secondary Phytometabolite Profiling of Hydro-distilled Essential Oil of Dry Flower from African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) by FTIR and DART Mass Spectrometry
Sandeep Kumar Rajvanshi* and Deepa H. Dwivedi
Department of Applied Plant Science (Horticulture), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, (A Central University) Vidya-Vihar Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow, U.P. India, 226 025
*Corresponding Author E-mail: sandeeprajvanshi786@gmail.com
Received: 7.02.2017 | Revised: 19.02.2017 | Accepted: 20.02.2017
ABSTRACT
African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) is known for its high therapeutic value besides its ornamental uses. The beneficial effect of herbal medicine typically results from the combination of secondary metabolites such as glycosides, alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, gums, etc., produced in the herbs. Thus, plants with medicinal values, their derivatives and characterized secondary phytometabolites are becoming popular as an alternative to synthetically produced allopathic systems of medicine. In the present investigation, essential oil extracted from dry flowers of African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) by hydro-distillation was subjected to screening for its phytometabolites with the help of FTIR which revealed presence of major functional groups viz., aliphatic amines, phenols alkanes and nitro compounds etc. The samples were further subjected to mass spectral ionization technique, Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) which elucidated the presence of piperitenone, ocimenone, umbellulone, terpinolene, α-pinene, thujene, sabinene, α-terpinolene and piperitone, etc., as the main components of the alkaloids, terpenes and phenolic compounds recored by FTIR analysis in the marigold oil.
Key words: Secondary phytometabolite, Tagetes erecta, Marigold oil, Hydro-distillation, African marigold, FTIR and DART- MS.
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Cite this article: Rajvanshi, S.K. and Dwivedi, D.H., Secondary Phytometabolite Profiling of Hydro-distilled Essential Oil of Dry Flower from African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) by FTIR and DART Mass Spectrometry, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(1): 729-734 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2559
