| Symposium |
| Antioxidant effect of various rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) clones |
| Éva Stefanovits-Bányai1*, Mária H. Tulok2, Attila Hegedûs1, Csilla Renner2, Ilona Szöllôsi Varga3 |
| 1Department of Applied Chemistry, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary, 2Department of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary, 3Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary |
| The antioxidant effects, the levels of total phenol and the total phenol contents of volatile oils and plant extracts were determined in eight various Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) clones. Antioxidant acitvities and the total phenol contents were measured by spectophotometric method as well as the volatile oil content of the fresh plants with gas chromatograph. Our preliminary results clearly indicate that the antioxidant capacity of volatile oils and plant extracts closely related to the total phenol contents. Reason of the observed differences should be revealed by the determination of the quantity and quality of the individual volatile oil components. Acta Biol Szeged 47(1-4):113-116 (2003) PDF |
| Key Words: Rosmarinus officinalis L., rosemary oil, total phenol content, FRAP |
| *Corresponding author. E-mail: ebanyai@omega.kee.hu |