Analysis of phenolic compounds in leaves from endemic trees from Madeira Island. A contribution to the chemotaxonomy of Laurisilva forest species

ndustrial Crops and Products

Volume 64, February 01, 2015, Pages 135-151

Llorent-Martínez, E.J.^ab, 

Gouveia, S.^a, 

Castilho, P.C.^a 

 

^a  Centro de Química da Madeira (CQM), Centro de Ciências Exactas e da Engenharia da Universidade da Madeira, Campus Universitário da Penteada, Funchal, Portugal
^b  Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas S/N, Jaén, Spain

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Abstract

Phenolic compounds present high antioxidant activity and, therefore, health promoting effects, serving as a type of preventive medicine. Hence, research on the chemical composition of plants with potential antioxidant value is of high interest.Forest cleaning, thinning, and pruning are beneficial activities that help maintaining healthy forests. In addition, they can provide vegetal material as source of valuable bioactive compounds that can have health promoting effects. In this work, the phenolic composition of several trees native to Madeira Archipelago (Portugal) was studied. Specifically, the leaves from Olea europaea ssp. cerasiformis, Ilex perado ssp. perado, Clethra arborea, and Heberdenia excelsa have been analyzed. The screening of the main phenolic compounds from their methanolic extracts has been carried out using high-performance liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization mass spectrometric detection (HPLC-ESI-MSⁿ). This is the first report on the phenolic composition of these Madeira native species, and more than 100 compounds have been detected and identified or tentatively characterized. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.

Author keywords

Endemic species; Flavonoid; Macaronesia; Procyanidin; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

Engineering controlled terms: Antioxidants; Biochemistry; Chemical cleaning; Chromatography; Diagnosis; Electrospray ionization; Flavonoids; High performance liquid chromatography; Ionization of liquids; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Phenols; Plants (botany); Spectrometry

Endemic species; Flavonoid; Macaronesia; Procyanidins; Tandem mass spectrometry

Engineering main heading: Forestry

GEOBASE Subject Index: antioxidant; bioactivity; broad-leaved forest; chemical composition; chemotaxonomy; endemic species; forest health; leaf; medicinal plant; methanol; new record; phenolic compound; plant extract

PaperChem Variable: Chemical Composition; Forests; Leaves; Liquid Chromatography; Phenols; Portugal; Thinning; Trees

Regional Index: Madeira; Portugal

Species Index: Clethra arborea; Heberdenia excelsa; Ilex perado; Olea europaea