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Essential Oil Composition Of Diploid And Tetraploid Clones Of Ginger (Zingiber Officinale Roscoe) Grown In Australia, Hans Wohlmuth, Mike Smith, Lyndon Brooks, Stephen Myers, David Leach
Essential Oil Composition Of Diploid And Tetraploid Clones Of Ginger (Zingiber Officinale Roscoe) Grown In Australia, Hans Wohlmuth, Mike Smith, Lyndon Brooks, Stephen Myers, David Leach
Dr Hans Wohlmuth
Ginger oil, obtained by steam distillation of the rhizome of Zingiber officinale Roscoe, is used in the beverage and fragrance industries. Ginger oil displays considerable compositional diversity, but is typically characterized by a high content of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, including zingiberene, ar-curcumene, -bisabolene, and -sesquiphellandrene. Australian ginger oil has a reputation for possessing a particular "lemony" aroma, due to its high content of the isomers neral and geranial, often collectively referred to as citral. Fresh rhizomes of 17 clones of Australian ginger, including commercial cultivars and experimental tetraploid clones, were steam distilled 7 weeks post-harvest, and the resulting oils were analyzed …