REGIONAL PATTERN AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN SEVERAL MEDICINAL PLANTS USING SPECTROMETRIC METHODS COMBINED WITH MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPROACHES

Simona Codruța Aurora COBZAC; Tiberiu FRENȚIU; Biljana BALABANOVA; Natalja MARKOVA RUZDIK; Dorina CASONI

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2021.2.01

REGIONAL PATTERN AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN SEVERAL MEDICINAL PLANTS USING SPECTROMETRIC METHODS COMBINED WITH MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPROACHES

Authors

Simona Codruța Aurora COBZAC Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos str., RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Research Center for Advanced Chemical Analysis, Instrumentation and Chemometrics, Arany Janos 11, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8968-3893
Tiberiu FRENȚIU Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos str., RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Research Center for Advanced Chemical Analysis, Instrumentation and Chemometrics, Arany Janos 11, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6670-3380
Biljana BALABANOVA Department of Soil Chemistry and Hydrology, Faculty of Agriculture, Goce Delcev University, Krste Misirkov 10-A, 2000, Stip, Republic of North Macedonia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9530-3674
Natalja MARKOVA RUZDIK Department of Plant Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Goce Delcev University, Krste Misirkov 10-A, 2000, Stip, Republic of North Macedonia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1465-2512
Dorina CASONI Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos str., RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Research Center for Advanced Chemical Analysis, Instrumentation and Chemometrics, Arany Janos 11, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. *Corresponding author: dorina.casoni@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7056-8000

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2021.2.01

Keywords:

essential element, medicinal plant, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, flame atomic emission spectrometry, Principal Component Analysis, two-way joining Cluster Analysis.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to provide a regional pattern and characteristics of essential elements in several medicinal plants from North Macedonia and Romania. The content of Ca, Mg, Al, Fe, Cu, Ba and Zn was determined by ICP-OES while Na and K by FAES in some medicinal plants belonging to sixteen families. Similar profiles of elements with a high content of Ca, Mg and K were observed. Peppermint and blackberry from both countries showed extreme content in Al and Fe. A symmetric distribution for K, Ca and Zn and an asymmetric one for Na, Al, Fe and Ba were found in medicinal plants from both countries. Potassium, Ca, Mg, Al and Fe could be considered as markers for growing area. Principal Component Analysis highlighted that the variability of elements content was described by four factors (83.4%) in North Macedonia and three factors (70.0%) in Romania. The first factor could explain the influence of soil nature upon variability of elemental composition, calcareous in North Macedonia (Mg and Ca – 29.4% variance) and a rich one in hydroxides in Romania (Al and Fe – 33.1% variance).

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2021-06-30

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COBZAC, S. C. A., FRENȚIU, T., BALABANOVA, B., MARKOVA RUZDIK, N., & CASONI, D. (2021). REGIONAL PATTERN AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN SEVERAL MEDICINAL PLANTS USING SPECTROMETRIC METHODS COMBINED WITH MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPROACHES. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 66(2), 9–22. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2021.2.01