title: Essential oil composition of two unique ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) cultivars from Sikkim.
abstract: Volatile oils from two most popular cultivars from Sikkim namely, Bhaisa and Majulay, were isolated, characterised by analytical GC and GC-MS. Sixty constituents accounting for 94.9% and 92.6% of the Bhaisa and Majulay oils were identified. The major compounds of Bhaisa oil were geranyl acetate (18.8%), zingiberene (16.3%) and geranial (8.2%) and those of Majulay oil were zingiberene (19.8%) and geranial (16.5%). Compared to other ginger cultivar oils, the Bhaisa oil had higher content of oxygenated compounds (43.1%). This is the first report on the essential oils from Sikkim ginger cultivars.
authors: Agroprocessing Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology-CSIR, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
authors: Indu
authors: I
authors: Sasidharan
authors: V V
authors: VV
authors: Venugopal
authors: A Nirmala
authors: AN
authors: Menon
mesh_terms: D000085:Acetates / Q000032:analysis; D000080462:Acyclic Monoterpenes; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D020939:Zingiber officinale / Q000737:chemistry*; D000081222:Monocyclic Sesquiterpenes; D039821:Monoterpenes / Q000032:analysis; D009822:Oils, Volatile / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000032:analysis; D012819:Sikkim; D013729:Terpenes / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000085:Acetates; D000080462:Acyclic Monoterpenes; D000081222:Monocyclic Sesquiterpenes; D039821:Monoterpenes; D009822:Oils, Volatile; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; D013729:Terpenes; C432872:geranyl acetate; C477983:zingiberene; C007076:citral