Desenvolvimento de método por CLAE-DAD para discriminação de chás de genótipos de Lippia gracilis Schauer através de cromatogramas fingerprint combinados com análises quimiométricas

Abstract

To evaluate the effects of the environmental on the content of secondary metabolites in the genotypes of Lippia gracilis Schauer, a high-performance liquid chromatographic-photodiode array detection (HPLC-DAD) method was developed to obtain the chemical profiles (fingerprints) of infusions from leaves of seven genotypes of L. gracilis originated from two locations (Sergipe and Bahia state) and collected in different seasons: summer (with and without irrigation) and winter. In order to compare the fingerprints chromatograms, it was applied chemometric tools for exploratory analysis (PCA). The results of these analyses showed that 108 and 202 genotypes collected in summer and grown without irrigation are significantly different from other genotypes under the same conditions. Moreover, knowing that this species is drought-resistant and can withstand high temperatures, we can propose that the 107, 108 and 110 genotypes are more resistant to drought conditions because there were no differences between samples collected in summer and grown with or without irrigation. All samples was submitted to antioxidant activity by DPPH method (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl). The samples of 201 genotype collected in summer with and without irrigation, 201vc and 201vs (30 μg/mL; 60 min), respectively, exhibited more than 90% DPPH scavenging activities, displaying similar response to the positive control, gallic acid (92.06%, 30 mg/mL, 60 min).