Mangifera indica as propolis source: what exactly do bees collect?

BMC Research Notes

Nguyen Thi Phuong Lien¹  Le Nguyen Thanh²  Vassya Bankova³  Milena Popova³  Boryana Trusheva³  Nia Ilieva³ 

[1]Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

[2]Institute of Marine Biochemistry and Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

[3]Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

关键词: Propolis;    Stingless bees;    Apis mellifera;    Mangifera indica;    Resin;    Latex;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13104-021-05863-7

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

ObjectiveThe mango tree Mangifera indica is known as one of the botanical sources of propolis in Tropical regions. There are two different materials which bees can collect from a mango tree to produce propolis: the resin of the tree bark, and the latex found on the fruits. We performed the study of the chemical profile of mango resin in comparison with propolis in order to clarify its importance as propolis source.ResultsWe compared the chemical profiles (by GC–MS analysis of ethanol extracts after silylation) of the resin and samples of propolis: of stingless bees (3 Vietnames, 2 Indonesian), and one of Apis mellifera from Thailand. In the resin and all propolis samples, 25 compounds were identified: fatty acids, cardanols (alk(en)yl phenols), cardols, anacardic acids, triterpene alcohols and ketones, cycloartane type triterpenic acids. All samples have the same qualitative composition but there are important quantitative differences. Considering literature data on mango latex, we conclude that bees of different species, make use of the two propolis sources offered by mango: bark resin and fruit latex, in different proportions. We also confirmed for the first time the presence of alk(en)yl phenols and anacardic acids in the tree bark resin of mango.

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