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Are you interested in the influence of distillation parameters on the composition of essential oils?

In the series, PhytoScience, One Article at a Time📄📊⚗, we present an article published by our associate scientist and expert in distillation Benoît Roger. In his article Benoît focused on the influence of time and wood chipping on the yield and composition of black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) essential oil.

The highest difference in yield was observed after 1 hour of distillation: 117%. Largely because the diffusion of compounds out of plant tissue is longer in branches or wood. Also, the chipping process, by shortening the diffusion path and increasing the interaction with the medium, allows for higher proportion of volatile compounds to be extracted and distilled in shorter times.

Therefore, chipping could be used to reduce distillation time and increase yield. However, in the case of black spruce, it has a significant influence on the composition of the oil.

In our next post, we will tell you more about these variations.

Stay tuned!!

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Synthetic biology test could force the natural products industry to define its position Ingredients produced through synthetic biology can be so closely identical to naturally produced ingredients that they had been difficult to detect, but a new test means the natural products industry may need to do more to face up to the issue.

"Persea de 165 anos, preparada para transplante, Japão.

Quando no Japão uma árvore se encontra no caminho traçado de uma obra civil de construção ou nova estrada, lá não se poupam meios, recursos e trabalhos na hora de realizar os transplantes das árvores como deve ser garantida a sua sobrevivência na sua nova localização.

É uma questão cultural, onde árvores, vida e longevidade são profundamente respeitadas.

(Foto de Jakkraphan Kong Mão)
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mais infos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MTiMimHZuE

very interesting

Mainstreaming Biodiversity Management into Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Production Processes (MAPS) The documentary produced under the “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Management into Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Production Processes” project aims at training t...

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DNA Shows Plants Are Extraordinary Chemists – Making Love and War Gardenia's newly sequenced genome highlights how evolutionary tinkering transforms plants into some of nature's great chemical-makers. Plants are some of nature's most extraordinary chemists. Unlike animals, they can't run from predators or pathogens. They can't uproot themselves to seek out a ma

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The future availability of plant ingredients to support human health–through medicines, food and well-being products–is dependent on prioritising the conservation and sustainable use of their source species in the long-term.

What do you think?

Have a good beginning of the week and andrá tutto bene

The Ecology of Disease A developing model of infectious disease shows that most epidemics — AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease — are a result of things people do to nature.

Scaling rocky heights to learn a plant’s survival secrets Rose A. Marks abseils down South African cliffs to understand how the ‘resurrection’ plant stays alive for years during droughts.

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Plants before pandas: the young bog-lover tackling extinction Almost as rare as the plants he protects, 24-year-old Josh Styles is not your average botanist. In 2017 he founded the North West Rare Plant Initiative, a co...

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What You Should Know About Greenwashing Greenwashing is conveying a false impression that a company or its products are more environmentally sound than they really are.

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Yerba mate - Ilex paraguariensis

Yerba mate was first cultivated and used by the indigenous Guaraní people and in some Tupí communities in southern Brazil, prior to European colonization. Yerba mate can be found in various energy drinks on the market, as well as being sold as a bottled or canned iced tea.

Yerba mate translates to "mate herb", where mate is originally from the Quechua mati, a complex word with multiple meanings. Mati means "container for a drink", "infusion of an herb", as well as "gourd".

This plant is most popular in Paraguay and Uruguay, where people are seen walking the streets carrying the mate and termo (thermal vacuum flask) in their arms.

Mate consumption spread in the 17th century to the River Plate and from there to Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.This widespread consumption turned it into Paraguay's main commodity above other wares, such as to***co, and indigenous peoples labour was used to harvest wild stands.

In the mid-17th century, Jesuits managed to domesticate the plant and establish plantations in their Indian reductions in Misiones, Argentina, sparking severe competition with the Paraguayan harvesters of wild stands. After their expulsion in the 1770s, their plantations fell into decay, as did their domestication secrets. The industry continued to be of prime importance for the Paraguayan economy after independence, but development in benefit of the Paraguayan state halted after the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870) that devastated the country both economically and demographically. Some regions with mate plantations in Paraguay became Argentine territory.

Brazil then became the largest producer of mate. In Brazilian and Argentine projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the plant was domesticated once again, opening the way for plantation systems. When Brazilian entrepreneurs turned their attention to coffee in the 1930s, Argentina, which had long been the prime consumer, took over as the largest producer, resurrecting the economy in Misiones Province, where the Jesuits had once had most of their plantations. For years, the status of largest producer shifted between Brazil and Argentina.

Sorry for the long text ! but what a curious history..

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https://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_intelligence -804569 a passionate speaker indeed 🙃

The roots of plant intelligence Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.

Fuchsia hybrida :) these genre Fuchsia, has a lot of flowers with different characteristics, aesthetic, mainly due to breeding techniques. This one looks very beautiful to my eyes !

Regarding the history of floriculture, certainly, early man appreciated gaily colored wildflowers. Ornamentals have been associated with all advanced civilizations of the world.
The use of flowers for ritual and religious acts is found in India, East and Southeast Asia, Egypt, the Near East and Europe, and can be traced back to at least ca.1000 B.C.

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An amazing sight of perfect combination of colors, Crocus and Galanthus, some of my favorite plants :)

Borago officinalis photo by . This star shaped flower was believed to be an anti-depressant, and thought to give courage and comfort to the heart. The herb is also the highest known plant source of GLA (gamma-linolenic acid). It's also a bee hotspot! What's not to love?

The Black Diamond Apple 🌱
These rare apples are found in the Mountains of Tibet 🌱

~ Cytinus hypocistis
This is an ant-pollinated species of parasitic plant in the family Cytinaceae having four subspecies. It is found primarily in locations that surround the Mediterranean Sea.

It is native to both the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands; Crete, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. It is also present in the penumbra of jarales of the Los Alcornocales Natural Park in Andalusia, in the low scrub associated with the Mediterranean cork oak.

Furthermore, this plant has been used in traditional medicine to treat dysentery and tumors of the throat, and has been used for its astringent, antidiarrheal and emenagogue qualities (Dioscorides, De Material Medica, Book 1, cap. CXXVII p. 119).

Ant-pollinated ???!

https://youtu.be/qEbMxWlVjnM
Dancing Plant (Desmodium Gyrans)

The amazing dancing plant(Telegraph plant)

"While the enzymologist's garden is a dream of uniformity, a green meadow where the cycles of Calvin and Krebs tick around in disciplined order, the organic chemist walks in an untidy jungle of uncouthly named extractives, rainbow display of pigments where in every bush there lurks the mangled shape of some alkaloid, the exotic perfume of some new terpene, or some shocking and explosive poly-acetylene".

- Bu'Lock (1961)
I'm in the untidy jungle

~ Marcgravia evenia
A bat-pollinated Cuban vine, bears a characteristic structure located just above the inflorescence that functions as an echo beacon for attracting bats.

These dish-shaped foliage leaves with twisted stalks that bring the leaf blade to an upright position with their upper concave side facing out-wards ensure its effective detection through echolocation.

uau :) how to make your pollinator locate you eheh

https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/15/4483/1749649?searchresult=1 uau

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874105007075 "In each season, eugenol and 1,8-cineole were the most abundant compounds, and in Spring the essential oil presented the greatest relative percentage of sesquiterpenes, suggesting that these compounds could explain the differences observed in the biological activity in essential oils obtained in different seasons of the year." 🙃

Effects of seasonal variation on the central nervous system activity of Ocimum gratissimum L. essential oil Ocimum gratissimum L. (Lamiaceae) and other species of the same genus are used as medicines to treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases, commonly e…

~ Hoya lasiantha

Hoya is an Asclepiad genus of 200–300 species of tropical plants in the family Apocynaceae (Dogbane). Most are native to Asia including India, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Common names for this genus are waxplant, waxvine, waxflower or simply hoya. This genus was named by botanist Robert Brown, in honour of his friend, botanist Thomas Hoy

Various cultures have used hoyas medicinally, especially Polynesian cultures. Some are toxic to livestock and sheep poisonings in Australia are reported.

Such a strange appearance !

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