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eISSN: 2581-9615 || CODEN: WJARAI || Impact Factor 8.2 ||  CrossRef DOI

Research and review articles are invited for publication in April 2026 (Volume 30, Issue 1) Submit manuscript

Determination of chemical composition and insecticidal potential of leaf essential oil of Mentha piperita L.

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  • Determination of chemical composition and insecticidal potential of leaf essential oil of Mentha piperita L.

Rianat Funmilayo Olayemi *, Haruna Balarabe Shehu and Abdulmalik Muhammad

Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, College of Science and Technology, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria.
 
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(01), 1570-1576
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2024.21.1.0130
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.21.1.0130
 
Received on 04 December 2023; revised on 14 January 2024; accepted on 16 January 2024
 
Pulverised fresh Mentha piperita leaves was subjected to hydrodistillation for three hours in a Clevenger-type apparatus. The oil obtained was characterised using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and also evaluated for insecticidal activity on Callosobruchus maculatus (bean weevils) and Sitophilus zeamais (maize weevils). The oil afforded a yield of 0.78% (w/w). A total of 39 compounds were identified from their mass spectra representing 98.9% of the oil. The classes of compounds identified revealed predominance of oxygenated monoterpenoids (72.4%), hydrogenated monoterpenoids accounted for 6.0%, hydrogenated sesquiterpenoids and oxygenated sesquiterpenoids constituted 12.2 and 4.0% respectively. Other non-terpenic compounds detected in the oil accounted for 4.3% of the total oil. The most abundant compound was menthol (40.4%), other major compounds identified were menthone (12.3%), menthofuran (9.2%), 1, 8-cineole (5.6%) and limonene (5.5%). The percentage mortality of between 68-94.5% and 65-90.2% were recorded for bean weevils and maize weevils respectively after exposure to 10µl essential oil vapour in fumigation chambers for 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours. The insecticidal activity of the oil compared favourably with that of standard insecticide and so can be used to formulate an alternative insecticide from botanical source.
 
Essential oil; Fumigant toxicity; Hydrodistillation; Insecticide; Mentha piperita
 
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Rianat Funmilayo Olayemi, Haruna Balarabe Shehu and Abdulmalik Muhammad. Determination of chemical composition and insecticidal potential of leaf essential oil of Mentha piperita L.. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 21(1), 1570-1576. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.21.1.0130

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