Changes in the essential oil composition of Melissa officinalis in response to elicitors methyl jasmonate and methyl salicylate

Authors

  • Simone da Silva Centro de Biotecnologia da Amazônia
  • Cláudio Barbosa Moreira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Maria Apparecida Esquibel Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Rosane Aguiar da Silva San Gil Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Carlos Alberto da Silva Riehl Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Alice Sato Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25066/agrotec.v35i1.20773

Abstract

It was investigated the effects of methyl jasmonate (MeJa) and methyl salicylate (MeSA) on essential oil composition of Melissa officinalis in vitro plants. MeJA treatments showed an increase of 13% of geranial proportion during 24 h of exposition, when compared with the control plants, in MS0 medium. After 48h of treatment, in addition to the presence of 2-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one (8.5% of the oil), it was observed an increase of 1,531.2% of verbenol and 1,114.8% of citronellal. After 96 hours of MeJA exposition, any effect was observed on plant secondary metabolites production since the essential oil composition was similar to the control (MS0). Regarding MeSa treatments, with 72 hours of exposure, presented an accumulation of geranial 21.4% greater than the control.

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Author Biographies

Simone da Silva, Centro de Biotecnologia da Amazônia

Laboratório de Cultura de Tecidos Vegetais

Cláudio Barbosa Moreira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho

Maria Apparecida Esquibel, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho

Rosane Aguiar da Silva San Gil, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Instituto de Química / Departamento de Química Orgânica

Carlos Alberto da Silva Riehl, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Instituto de Química / Departamento de Química Analítica

Alice Sato, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Departamento de Ciências Naturais

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

Silva, S. da, Moreira, C. B., Esquibel, M. A., Gil, R. A. da S. S., Riehl, C. A. da S., & Sato, A. (2014). Changes in the essential oil composition of Melissa officinalis in response to elicitors methyl jasmonate and methyl salicylate. Agropecuária Técnica, 35(1), 191–202. https://doi.org/10.25066/agrotec.v35i1.20773

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Artigo Científico

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