Essential oils and distilled straws of lavender and lavandin: a review of current use and potential application in white biotechnology

摘要: The Lavandula genus, which includes lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and lavandin (L. angustifolia × Lavandula latifolia), is cultivated worldwide for its essential oils, find applications in perfumes, cosmetics, food processing and, more recently, aromatherapy products. chemical composition of usually produced by steam distillation from the flowering stems, characterized presence terpenes (e.g. linalool linalyl acetate) terpenoids 1,8-cineole), are mainly responsible their characteristic flavour biological therapeutic properties. Lavender distilled straws, by-products oil extraction, were traditionally used soil replenishment or converted to a fuel source. They mineral- carbon-rich plant residues therefore, cheap, readily available source valuable substances industrial interest, especially aroma antioxidants terpenoids, lactones phenolic compounds including coumarin, herniarin, α-bisabolol, rosmarinic chlorogenic acids). Accordingly, recent studies have emphasized possible uses straws fermentative enzymatic processes involving various microorganisms, filamentous fungi, production antimicrobials, other bioproducts with pharmaceutical cosmetic activities, opening up new challenging perspectives white biotechnology applications.