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FULL ISSUE: NVEO 2021, Volume 8 NATURAL VOLATILES & ESSENTIAL OILS Volume 8, Issue 1, 2021 REVIEWS____________________________________________________________________ Pages 1-12 Review on Malaysian Goniothalamus essential oils and their comparative study using multivariate statistical analysis. Natasa Mohd Shakri, Wan Mohd Nuzul Hakimi Wan Salleh and Shazlyn Milleana Shaharudin RESEARCH ARTICLES___________________________________________________________ Pages 13-17 Essential oil composition of Strychnos axillaris Colebr. (Loganiaceae). Wan Mohd Nuzul Hakimi Wan Salleh, Shamsul Khamis, Hakimi Kassim and Alene Tawang 18-21 Volatile components and antimicrobial activity of the n-hexane extracts of Neomuretia pisidica (Kit Tan) Kljuykov, Degtjareva & Zakharova. Ayşe Esra Karadağ, Betül Demirci, Ömer Çeçen, Ayvaz Ünal and Fatma Tosun 22-28 Chemical composition of essential oil from the aerial parts of Santolina rosmarinifolia L. a wild Algerian medicinal plant. Djamel Sarri, Noui Hendel, Hadjer Fodil, Giuseppe Ruberto and Madani Sarri 29-38 Monarda essential oils as natural cosmetic preservative systems. Łukasz Gontar, Anna Herman, Ewa Osińska 39-48 The Essential Oil Profiles of Chaerophyllum crinitum and C. macrospermum Growing wild in Turkey. Hale Gamze Ağalar, Ayhan Altıntaş, and Betül Demirci BADEBIO LTD. Nat. Volatiles & Essent. Oils, 2021; 8(1): 1-12 Shakri et al. DOI: 10.37929/nveo.786172 REVIEW Review on Malaysian Goniothalamus essential oils and their comparative study using multivariate statistical analysis Natasa Mohd Shakri1, Wan Mohd Nuzul Hakimi Wan Salleh1,* and Shazlyn Milleana Shaharudin2 1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, MALAYSIA 2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak, MALAYSIA *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Submitted: 27.08.2020; Accepted: 24.12.2020 Abstract The genus Goniothalamus is belonging to the Annonaceae family, consists of ca. 2500 species and found in tropical Southeast Asia. The Goniothalamus essential oils were recognized to possess considerable biological activities with varied chemical composition. This article aims to overview the medicinal uses, chemical compositions, and biological activities of Malaysian Goniothalamus essential oils considered as a medicinal plants, widely used as traditional herbal medicines in the treatment of various diseases. The data were collected from the scientific electronic databases including SciFinder, Scopus, Elsevier, PubMed and Google Scholar. Ten Goniothalamus species have been reported for their essential oils and biological activities. It can be observed that the major components were α-cadinol, terpinen-4-ol, β-eudesmol, β-selinene, linalool, limonene, α-copaene, 1,8-cineole and β-cubebene. In addition, the selected chemical components from the bark, leaf and root oils were analysed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) and were able to cluster in four groups based on relationships and chemical patterns in essential oils. This multivariate data analysis may be used for the identification and characterization of essential oils from different Goniothalamus species that are to be used as raw materials of traditional herbal products. Keywords: Annonaceae, Goniothalamus, essential oil, principal component analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis Introduction Known as the most powerful therapeutic agents, essential oils are usually used as an alternative medicine known as aromatherapy to support human health and well-being. Additionally, essential oils have also been commonly used in the cosmetics, food, and agricultural industries. Essential oils are usually extracted from a natural source and have that particular plant's fragrance (Winska et al., 2019; Salleh et al., 2014a). The essential oil is normally stored within the plant's oil cells, glands, and vessels. It is released from the flowers as a fragrant fragrance, or retained in the plant's seeds, fruits, leaves, barks or roots until it gradually evaporates (Burger et al., 2019; Salleh et al., 2014b). Essential oils from aromatic and medicinal plants have been known since antiquity to possess biological activity, most notably antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant properties (Salleh et al., 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c). Annonaceae is one of the plant families which numerous report on essential oils, due to its wide use in various traditional medicines and believed to have high medicinal values. Annonaceae family is the largest family of the order Magnoliales consisting of approximately 135 genera and more than 2,500 species. The family has a source of edible fruit that can be considered to have economic importance. Goniothalamus is a genus of the Annonaceae family, with approximately 160 species of trees and shrubs frequently found in tropical Southeast Asia throughout Indochina and Malaysia (Anary et al., 2016; Aslam et al., 2016). The botanical characteristics are simple, strongly aromatic bark, having few leaves that are simple, alternate and exstipulate. The secondary nerves are also oblique, straight and parallel to 1 Nat. Volatiles & Essent. Oils, 2021; 8(1): 1-12 Shakri et al. DOI: 10.37929/nveo.786172 scalariform reticulations. The axillary flowers are characteristically woody, fusiform and often dark green (Wiart, 2006, 2007; Nielsen, 1993). Goniothalamus species have been used as traditional medicines in Malaysia but information about the volatile composition quality of essential oils from these herbal materials is still limited. Previous studies have described the biological activities of various Goniothalamus species such as antibacterial (Funnimid et al., 2019), antimicrobial (Ghani et al., 2010), antifungal (Duc et al., 2016), antioxidant (Iqbal et al., 2015), and cytotoxicity activities (Kim et al., 2013). The available information on the essential oils of Goniothalamus species was collected via electronic searches such as Pubmed, SciFinder, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. This work aims to give an overview of all published studies on the chemical composition and biological activities of Malaysian Goniothalamus essential oils. In addition, the multivariate statistical analysis was also determined for the leaf, bark and root oils of selected Goniothalamus species. Principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were used to characterize their essential oils components. Traditional uses Goniothalamus species are used to induce abortion, antiaging, body pain, rheumatism, skin irritation, typhoid fever, tympanites, stomach ache and fever in widespread medicinal commodities. Table 1 shows several Goniothalamus species and their medicinal uses. Table 1. Medicinal uses of several Goniothalamus species Species Local name Part Medicinal uses G. amuyon amúyon Seeds Used to treat scabies, rheumatism and tympanites (Ahmad et al., 1991) Fruits Used to treat stomachache (Quisumbing, 1951) G. cheliensis Stems Used for the treatment of liver cancer, lung carcinoma and chronic cough (Jiang et al., 2011) G. dolichocharpus bihidieng Roots It is boiled and taken orally by the Kelabit community to ease stomachache (Quisumbing, 1951) G. giganteus penawar hitam Roots Used in abortion and treatment of colds (Wiart, 2006) Leaves Heated leaves are applied to swellings (Wiart, 2006) G. lanceolatus selukai Leaves Used as a traditional remedy for fever, skin infection, postpartum, abortion, as well as a cancer treatment (Wiart, 2007) G. laoticus Khao Lam-dong Stem bark Used traditionally as a tonic and a febrifuge by the local people in the northeastern part of Thailand (Wu et al., 1991) G. macrophyllus selayak hitam Leaves Used to allay fever (Alkofahi et al., 1988) Roots Used as a postpartum remedy and to cause abortion, antiaging purposes, rheumatisms, skin complaints, eliminate excessive gas in the body and used as a lotion to treat body pains (Alkofahi et al., 1988) G. marcanii Leaves Used treating for infectious diseases in early childhood (Mahiwan et al., 2013) G. malayanus kenanga paya Roots Used for the treatment of rheumatism and fever (Ahmad et al., 1991) Stem bark Used to treat measles and as insect repellents (Ahmad et al., 1991) G. scortechinii gajah beranak Leaves Used as a postpartum protective remedy and were used to improve blood circulation (Burkill, 1966) G. sesquipedalis Leaves Used to treat fever, cough, colds, snakebite, pains, and infectious and inflammatory diseases (Akter et al., 2018) 2 Nat. Volatiles & Essent. Oils, 2021; 8(1): 1-12 Shakri et al. DOI: 10.37929/nveo.786172 G. tapis kenarak Roots Used as an abortifacient during early months of pregnancy, an infusion of the roots is used to treat typhoid fever (Inayat-Hussain et al., 1999) G. uvarioides belindung Roots Used as postpartum protective remedies, abortifacients, and to treat typhoid fever, rheumatism, and headache (Moharam et al., 2012) G. velutinus kayu tas hitam Leaves Used as a traditional medicine for treating headache, food poisoning, as well as snakebite remedies, induce abortion and as a post-partum remedy (Inayat-Hussain et al., 1999) Chemical composition of Malaysian Goniothalamus essential oils There are ten species of Goniothalamus originated from Malaysia that were successfully reported for their essential oil composition. The essential oils of ten local Goniothalamus which were G. andersonii, G. clemensii, G. macrophyllus, G. malayanus,
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