Mentha suaveolens

This example involves a smdy of free flavonoids (aglycones) present on the leaf surface of Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. (Lamiaceae) growing in Spain and in Algeria... 

Oumzil H, Ghoulami S, Rhajaoui M, Ilidrissi A, Fkih-Tetouani S, Paid M, Benjouad A, Antibacterial and antifungal activity of essential oils of Mentha suaveolens, Phytother Res 16 727—731, 2002. 

Zaidi, F. et al.. Free flavonoid aglycones from leaves of Mentha pulegium and Mentha suaveolens (Labiatae), Phytochemistry, 48, 991, 1998. 

Civitelli, L., Panella, S., Marcocci, M. E., De Petris, A., Garzoli, S., Pepi, F. et al. (2014). Invitro inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1 replication by Mentha suaveolens essential oil and its main component piperitenone oxide. Phvtomedicine 21. 857-865. doi 10.1016/j.phymed.2014.01.013. 

The antimicrobial activity of piperitone oxide rich Mentha rotundifolia M. suaveolens) oil was investigated by Oumzil et al., who found it less significant than that of pulegone or piperitone rich oils. The biosynthesis of the two levorotatory diastereomers from (15,25)(+)-piperitenone oxide... 

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