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Journal Article 
Population variability of nonacosan-10-ol and n-alkanes in needle cuticular waxes of Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce GRISEB.) 
Nikolić, B; Tešević, V; Dorđević, I; Todosijević, M; Jadranin, M; Bojović, S; Marin, PD 
2012 
Yes 
Chemistry & Biodiversity
ISSN: 1612-1872
EISSN: 1612-1880 
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH 
WEINHEIM 
9 
6 
1155-1165 
English 
22700233 
WOS:000305282600013 
This is the first report on population variability of nonacosan-10-ol and n-alkanes in needle epicuticular waxes of Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce GRISEB.) Hexane extracts of needle samples, originating from two natural populations in Montenegro (Zeletin and Sjekirica) and from one population in Serbia (Mokra Gora) were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The amount of nonacosan-10-ol varied individually from 41.3 to 72.31% (average 55.9%), with the Sjekirica population being statistically divergent (64.4% on average). The results showed n-alkanes in epicuticular waxes ranging from C₁₈ to C₃₃. The most abundant alkanes were C₂₉, C₂₅, C₂₇, and C₂₃ (15.5, 11.1, 10.6, and 10.5% on average, resp.). The carbon preference index of Pinus peuce ranged from 1.0 to 4.3 (1.9 on average). Average chain length ranged from 18.4 to 27.7 (average 25.7). A high level of inidividual quantitative variation in all of these hydrocarbon parameters was also detected. These results were compared with published data on other species from the Pinus genus.