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In-Depth Analysis of the Essential Oil of Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata (Asteraceae).

  • Aldo Tava1
  • Elisa Biazzi1
  • Pietro Fusani2
  1. 1Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Centro di ricerca Zootecnia e Acquacultura, Viale Piacenza 29, 26900 Lodi, Italy.
  2. 2Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Centro di ricerca Foreste e Legno, Piazza Nicolini 6, 38100 Trento, Italy.
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Abstract

Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata (Wulfen) Vacc. (Sin.: A. moschata Wulfen) is a plant belonging to the Asteraceae family and is traditionally used for its medicinal and aromatic properties. Nowadays, it is primarily used as an ingredient of several commercial liqueurs. The essential oil from a representative number of A. erba-rotta subsp. moschata plants collected from the Eastern Italian Alps and cultivated in the same experimental conditions were investigated by GC/FID and GC/MS methods. A great variability among analyzed plant samples was recorded for the essential oil qualitative and quantitative composition. Oxygenated monoterpenes were the main class of detected compounds, of which cis- and trans-thujones (from nil to 85.5% of the total oil), camphor (from 0.2 to 55.6%) and 1,8-cineol (from 0.3 to 19.7%) were the most abundant. Among sesquiterpenes, the group of caryophyllenes, including caryophyllene and its oxygenate derivatives, were quoted from 3.3 to 29.9%, while β-eudesmol comprised from nil to 16.9% of the total oil. Given the known toxicity of thujones for human consumption, the results of this study are of particular importance for selecting plants with lower thujone content in the framework of a possible breeding program.

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@article{tava2026indepth,
  title = {{In-Depth Analysis of the Essential Oil of Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata (Asteraceae).}},
  author = {Aldo Tava and Elisa Biazzi and Pietro Fusani},
  journal = {Plants (Basel, Switzerland)},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3390/plants15203176},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42943129},
  note = {CC BY},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - In-Depth Analysis of the Essential Oil of Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata (Asteraceae).
AU  - Aldo Tava
AU  - Elisa Biazzi
AU  - Pietro Fusani
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/16
JO  - Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
DO  - 10.3390/plants15203176
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42943129
AB  - Achillea erba-rotta subsp. moschata (Wulfen) Vacc. (Sin.: A. moschata Wulfen) is a plant belonging to the Asteraceae family and is traditionally used for its medicinal and aromatic properties. Nowadays, it is primarily used as an ingredient of several commercial liqueurs. The essential oil from a representative number of A. erba-rotta subsp. moschata plants collected from the Eastern Italian Alps and cultivated in the same experimental conditions were investigated by GC/FID and GC/MS methods. A great variability among analyzed plant samples was recorded for the essential oil qualitative and quantitative composition. Oxygenated monoterpenes were the main class of detected compounds, of which cis- and trans-thujones (from nil to 85.5% of the total oil), camphor (from 0.2 to 55.6%) and 1,8-cineol (from 0.3 to 19.7%) were the most abundant. Among sesquiterpenes, the group of caryophyllenes, including caryophyllene and its oxygenate derivatives, were quoted from 3.3 to 29.9%, while β-eudesmol comprised from nil to 16.9% of the total oil. Given the known toxicity of thujones for human consumption, the results of this study are of particular importance for selecting plants with lower thujone content in the framework of a possible breeding program.
SN  - 2223-7747
ER  -