| essential oil composition and antibacteral activity of vismia baccifera fruits collected from mérida, venezuela. | the essential oil from the fruits of vismia baccifera triana & planch. (gutttiferae), collected in june 2009, was analyzed by gc/ms. a yield of 0.6% oil was obtained by hydrodistillation. twenty-seven components were identified by comparison of their mass spectra with those in the wiley gc-ms library data base. the major components were trans-cadin-l1,4-diene (36.6%), cis-cadin-1,4-diene (18.8%) and beta-caryophyllene (11.9%). the essential oil showed a broad spectrum of antibacterial activity a ... | 2011 | 21615035 |