Regional pattern and characteristics of essential elements in several medicinal plants using spectrometric methods combined with multivariate statistical approaches

Cobzac, Simona Codruta Aurora and Frentiu, Tiberiu and Balabanova, Biljana and Markova Ruzdik, Natalija and Casoni, Dorina (2021) Regional pattern and characteristics of essential elements in several medicinal plants using spectrometric methods combined with multivariate statistical approaches. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Chemia.

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to provide a regional pattern and characteristics of essential elements in several medicinal plants from North Macedonia and Romania. The content of Ca, Mg, Al, Fe, Cu, Ba and Zn was determined by ICP-OES while Na and K by FAES in some medicinal plants belonging to sixteen families. Similar profiles of elements with a high content of Ca, Mg and K were observed. Peppermint and blackberry from both countries showed extreme content in Al and Fe. A symmetric distribution for K, Ca and Zn and an asymmetric one for Na, Al, Fe and Ba were found in medicinal plants from both countries. Potassium, Ca, Mg, Al and Fe could be considered as markers for growing area. Principal Component Analysis highlighted that the variability of elements content was described by four factors (83.4%) in North Macedonia and three factors (70.0%) in Romania. The first factor could explain the influence of soil nature upon variability of elemental composition, calcareous in North Macedonia (Mg and Ca - 29.4% variance) and a rich one in hydroxides in Romania (Al and Fe - 33.1 % variance). Keywords: essential element, medicinal plant, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, flame atomic emission spectrometry, Principal Component Analysis, two-way joining Cluster Analysis

Item Type:	Article
Impact Factor Value:	0,49
Subjects:	Natural sciences > Biological sciences Natural sciences > Chemical sciences Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences Agricultural Sciences > Other agricultural sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Agriculture
Depositing User:	Biljana Balabanova
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2021 08:44
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2021 08:44
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/28792

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