Evaluation of Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity ofVitex agnus castusL. Fruits’ Essential Oils from West Anatolia, Turkey

This study deals with the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of essential oils of Vitex agnus castus L. The main constituents of the essential oils were characterized by GC-MS which resulted in the identification of 26 components, representing 100 % of the oil. The dominant compounds in the oil of fruits were trans-caryophyllene (19.17 %), sabinene (18.05 %) and 1,8-cineole (16.13 %), α-terpinyl acetate (6.91 %) and dihydroselarene...