ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Tea tree and wintergreen essential oils in the management of the invasive species Cortaderia selloana and Nicotiana glauca
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Departament de Farmacologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de València, València, Spain
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article
Submission date: 2018-12-12
Acceptance date: 2019-05-22
Online publication date: 2019-06-12
Corresponding author
María Amparo Blázquez
Departament de Farmacologia, Facultat de Farmàcia. Universitat de València, Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Spain
Departament de Farmacologia, Facultat de Farmàcia. Universitat de València, Avda. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100, Burjassot, Spain
Journal of Plant Protection Research 2019;59(2):160–169
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ABSTRACT
The chemical composition of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) and wintergreen (Gaultheria
procumbens) essential oils as well as their phytotoxic effects against two invasive species –
Cortaderia selloana and Nicotiana glauca – were studied. Fifty-eight compounds accounting
for 98.89–99.94% of the total commercial tea tree and wintergreen essential oils were
identified by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. Tea tree essential
oil with terpinen-
4-ol (28.37 ± 0.05%) followed by 1,8-cineole (15.81 ± 0.06%), γ-terpinene
(15.60 ± 0.03%), α-pinene (10.92 ± 0.08%) and α-terpinene (8.52 ± 0.01%) as the main
compounds did not produce significant effects against seed germination and hypocotyl
growth of N. glauca, but showed significant effects in seed germination inhibition of C. selloana
(34.69%) as well as in hypocotyl (60.96%) and radicle (62.55%) growth, at the highest
dose (1 μl ⋅ ml–1) assayed. High amounts of methyl salicylate (99.63 ± 0.02%) were found in
G. procumbens essential oil with remarkable phytotoxic effects in C. seollana. Methyl salicylate
inhibited seed germination (77.38%) and hypocotyl and radicle growth (96.38% and 96.65%,
respectively) at the highest dose (1 μl ⋅ ml–1) assayed. Wintergreen essential oil constitutes an
eco-friendly alternative to control the high capacity of invasiveness of C. selloana.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to thank the Central Service for Experimental Research of the University of Valencia (SCSIE) for providing the Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
equipment and Professor Pilar Soriano from the Jardín
Botánico de Valencia for collecting and providing the
seeds.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors have declared that no conflict of interests exist.
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