1. Intra- and interpopulation variability of Balkan endemic - Satureja kitaibelii based on n-alkane profile
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Tanja Dodoš, Nemanja Rajčević, Jelica Novaković, Petar D. Marin, and Pedja Janaćković
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education.field_of_study ,food.ingredient ,010405 organic chemistry ,Biogeography ,Population ,Zoology ,Biology ,Satureja ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,0104 chemical sciences ,010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry ,food ,Chemotaxonomy ,Statistical analyses ,Endemism ,education ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Satureja kitaibelii Wierzb. ex Heuff. is endemic species of central Balkan that lives along the Balkan mountains range. The aim of this research was to study the variability of n-alkane profiles of four S. kitaibelii populations growing wild in Serbia in regards to biogeography and chemotaxonomy. Using GC/MS and GC/FID, seventeen n-alkane homologues (C19–C35) were identified. n-Hentriacontane (C31) was dominant in all populations, except in population Djerdap and Rtanj were it was co-dominant with n-nonacosane (C29). Population Temsica and Poganovo also had high percentages of n-nonacosane and n-tritriacontane (C33). However, these two compounds had similar quantities in population Poganovo. Statistical analyses showed differences between studied populations based on n-alkane profiles. Moreover, geographically closer populations had a similar profile.
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- 2019