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<mods:note>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;In this study, the chemical variation of the essential oils of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/endemic-species&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about endemic species from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;endemic species&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/origanum&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about Origanum from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;Origanum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;elongatum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;has been studied in its biogeographical context. Essential oils of 168 individual plants collected from 30 populations growing wild in two Moroccan mountains: Rif and Middle Atlas, were analyzed by GC-FID (Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detector), GC/MS (Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;C NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Origanum elongatum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;produces an EOs yielding after&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/hydrodistillation&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about hydrodistillation from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;hydrodistillation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;from 0.81% to 3.12% based on the dry weight of the original biomass. 28 compounds were identified, with a majority of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/terpene-derivative&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about oxygenated monoterpenes from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;oxygenated monoterpenes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;among them&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/carvacrol&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about carvacrol from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;carvacrol&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/thymol&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about thymol from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;thymol&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;-cymene constitute the most represented compounds. Moreover, a great amount of α-terpinene,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/limonene&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about limonene from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;limonene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/thymoquinone&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about thymoquinone from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;thymoquinone&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and thymohydroquinone were reported in some samples. Four chemical groups have been identified, namely; carvacrol, carvacrol/thymol, carvacrol/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;-cymene and thymol. The geographic distributions of these&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/chemotype&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about chemotypes from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;chemotypes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;appear to vary since the carvacrol chemotype was the most distributed, while the thymol was found more abundantly in populations from Rif. However, the carvacrol/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;-cymene chemotype was revealed only in Taza region. For the first time the whole chemical picture of the EOs of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;O. elongatum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, STIXGeneral, &quot;Cambria Math&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Microsoft Sans Serif&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;, serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;is presented in relation to their&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/geographical-distribution&quot; title=&quot;Learn more about geographical distribution from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages&quot; class=&quot;topic-link&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); word-break: break-word; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-decoration-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;&quot;&gt;geographical distribution&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;such knowledge is primordial in developing a breeding program in order to protect this species widely and intensively used for both medicinal and food uses but also supply the continuous market needs by producing high quality and stable raw material.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</mods:note>
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