title: Chemical variability of peel and leaf essential oils of 15 species of mandarins.
abstract: Peel and leaf oils of 58 mandarin cultivars, belonging to 15 different species were obtained from fruits and leaves collected on mandarin-trees submitted to the same pedoclimatic and cultural conditions. Their chemical composition was investigated by capillary GC, GC/MS and 13C NMR and the results were submitted to a cluster analysis and a discriminant analysis. Three major chemotypes, limonene, limonene/gamma-terpinene and linalyl acetate/limonene, were distinguished for peel oils while three other chemotypes, sabinene/linalool, gamma-terpinene/linalool and methyl N-methylanthranilate, were observed for leaf oils.
authors.affiliation: Université de Corse - Equipe Chimie et Biomasse, URA CNRS 2053, Route des Sanguinaires, 20000, Ajaccio, France
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lota
authors.lastname: de Rocca Serra D
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tomi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casanova