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Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales

versión On-line ISSN 1028-4796

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JARAMILLO C, Beatriz E; DUARTE R, Edisson  y  DELGADO, Wilman. Bioactivity of essential oil from Colombian Chenopodium ambrosioides. Rev Cubana Plant Med [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.1, pp.54-64. ISSN 1028-4796.

Introduction: plants have developed self-protecting chemical mechanisms to avoid being attacked by insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The diseases caused by these pests are controlled with pesticides of high toxicity, therefore, it is necessary to use alternative compounds like essential oils. Essential oils are potential botanical sources of compounds having the same function as the pesticides. However, they have some advantages over the latter such as low toxicity for mammal, high volatility and toxicity for pests and microorganisms which attack stored products. Its volatile insecticidal property made it to be known as fumigant. Chenopodium ambrosioides L. (Chenopodiaceae) has been reported for its potential antiparasitic properties, including antiprotozoal activity. Objective: this study determine the fumigant, antifungal, and antioxidant activities of essential oils isolated from Chenopodium ambrosioides L. and their volatile chemical composition. Methods: the essential oil (EO) was obtained from leaves of C. ambrosioides by hydrodistillation whereas the volatile chemical composition was determined by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry detector (GC-MS). The fumigant activity assay of the essential oil was performed against Sitophilus zeamais. The antifungal activity on plant pathogenic fungus (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Dianthi) and the antioxidant potential were determined through the discoloration test of DPPH. radical. Results: the major component found in the essential oil from C. ambrosioides was a-terpinene (60.29 %), followed by p-cymene (20.49 %), 4-carene (7.96 %) and trans-ascaridol (1.91 %). C. ambrosioides was active against Fusarium oxysporum, with a mycelial inhibition of 97.3 % at 176.5 µL EO/L air after 72 h of exposure; and a mortality rate against Sitophilus zeamais of 100% at 500 µL of essential oil per air liter after 24 h of exposure. The inhibition percentage of DPPHradical was 84.89 %. Conclusions: this study demonstrated that C. ambrosioides essential oil exhibits important fungicidal activity on F. oxysporum and fumigant on S. zeamais, which could become an alternative to synthetic fungicides and insecticides.

Palabras clave : Chenopodium ambrosioides; essential oil; antifungal; insecticides; antioxidant.

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