Comparative Study of the Seed Extracts of Apiaceae Plants in Ultrasonic Conditions

There are many bioactive compounds with known effects on microorganisms (fungi, bacteria, viruses) in plants of the Apiaceae family. The properties of selected extracts obtained with classical method, and their antifungal activities were described in previous works. In this paper, the results of a study concerning the properties of the following seed extracts are described: parsley (Petroselinum crispum), common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), hogweed Sosnowsky (Heracleum Sosnowsky), ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria), dill (Anethum Graveolens), lowage (Levisticum officinale) and cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). These extracts were obtained with the use of ethyl acetate as an extractant, at room temperature in ultrasonic bath. The analysis of the extracts was carried out on GC-MS an Agilent 6890N gas chromatograph. Antioxidant content in the extracts was measured with two different methods: with the use of ascorbic acid or linoleic acid in the first method and N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine (DMPD) in the second method. The obtained results showed that the extracts obtained with the proposed method contain more native agents so their biological activity should be higher.