Volatile compounds and palynological analysis from pollen pots of stingless bees from the mid-north region of Brazil

ABSTRACT Samburá is the botanical pollen nectar agglutinated by salivary secretions of bees. Stingless bee pollen samples were collected in three periods of the year in Monsenhor Gil town, PI, Brazil, for extraction of volatile constituents by different techniques, analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and the palynological analysis used to identify the dominant pollen. Among the volatile compounds identified, kaur-16-ene, methyl and ethyl hexadecanoate, methyl linoleate and heneicosane were identified more frequently in the studied parameters: period of sample collection and extraction techniques used. The palynological analysis identified the pollen of Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Benth. as the dominant pollen in all samples studied.

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Main Authors:	Lima Neto,José de Sousa, Lopes,José Arimatéia Dantas, Moita Neto,José Machado, Lima,Sidney Gonçalo de, Luz,Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da, Citó,Antônia Maria das Graças Lopes
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas 2017
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502017000200619
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