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Chemical Composition, Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity of the Essential oil of Pinus Patula Growing in Rwanda

Received: 12 May 2014     Accepted: 5 June 2014     Published: 20 June 2014
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Essential oils and their components are increasingly spreading as naturally occurring antimicrobial agents. In this work the chemical composition and the antimicrobial properties of Pinus patula essential oils, a wild Pinaceae, which grows in several regions of Rwanda, were characterized and assessed. The essential oil was obtained by steam distillation and the chemical composition was determined using GC/MS. The in vitro antimicrobial activity of the essential oil was studied against two Gram-negative bacteria (Streptococcus pyogenis, Pseudomonas solanacearum) and one Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) and two fungi (Pycularia oryzae, Colletotrichum coffeanum) using a broth macrodilution method and by agar diffusion method. During the chemical composition analysis, seventy-four components making up 99.11% of the oil were detected while only fifty components making up 95.70% of the oil were characterized, β-phellandrene (18.98%), α-pinene (15.91%), bornyl acetate (7.89%), β-caryophyllene (7.41%), limonene (5.67%) being the major constituents. The results of the in vitro antimicrobial assay showed that essential oil extracted from the rwandese Pinus patula has a strong activity against all tested bacteria and fungi, exception done to Colletotrichum coffeanum fungi.

Published in American Journal of Biomedical and Life Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajbls.20140203.11
Page(s) 55-59
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Keywords

Essential Oil, Pinus Patula, Rwanda, Chemical Composition, Antimicrobial Activity

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Author Information
  • Research Program in Phytomedecine and Life Science, Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Huye, Rwanda

  • Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, National University of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda

  • Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, National University of Rwanda, Huye, Rwanda

  • Research Program in Phytomedecine and Life Science, Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Huye, Rwanda

  • Research Program in Phytomedecine and Life Science, Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Huye, Rwanda

  • Laboratory of Photochemistry Molecular and Macromolecular, Chemistry of Essential Oils, Blaise Pascal Clermont University, Aubière Cédex, France

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