بررسي كمي و كيفي اسانس شويد ANETHUMGRAVEOLENS L ايران

Essential oil composition of Anethum graveolens L

The flowering shoot and seeds of cultivated Anethum graveolens (dill) were harvested from the research center of Alborz near Tehran. The essential oils, obtained by distillation methods, were evaluated for their chemical composition by GC and GC/MS. Thirteen compounds were identified. The main constituent of the flowering shoot oil was Alfa-phellandrene (56.1%), while that of seed oil was carvone (57.3%). Carvone was not found in the flowering shoot oil and Alfa-phellandrene represented only 1.6% of the seed oil. The second main component was limonene, 23.8% in the flowering shoot oil and 33.2% in the seed oil.