Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 792517, 2 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/792517

Erratum

Erratum to “Chemistry and Biology of Essential Oils of Genus Boswellia”

Hidayat Hussain,1,2 Ahmed Al-Harrasi,¹ Ahmed Al-Rawahi,¹ and Javid Hussain¹

¹Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nizwa, Birkat Al-Mouz, 616 Nizwa, Oman

²Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

Received 29 September 2013; Accepted 8 October 2013; Published 12 January 2014

Copyright © 2014 Hidayat Hussain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In the original paper the following two errors were present. Correspondence should be addressed as shown above. In the original paper, the table describing major compounds in the oils of Boswellia species including studies on page 7 (Table 2) includes some errors. The value “29.3” should be “29.7” and “61.36” should be “61.4.” The corrected table is presented as follows.

Table 2: Percentages of major compounds in the essential oils of reported Boswellia species.

Boswellia species
Method of obtaining resin
Predominant compound(s)
Percentage (%)
Literature

B. serrata
Obtained from Willy Benecke GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
Myrcene
38

B. serrata
NA
-Thujene
22.7–47.4

B. serrata
NA
-Thujene
29.7

B. serrata
NA
-Thujene
61.4

B. carteri
Purchased from the local market of herbs and spices in Egypt
Duva-3,9,13-triene-1a-ol-5,8-oxide-1-acetate
21.4

B. sacra
Botanically certified oleogum resin
E--Ocimene
32.3

B. carteri/sacra
NM
Octanol acetate
45.2

B. carteri
Authentic sample from Ethiopia certified for its authenticity from the Agricultural Department of the Ethiopian government
Octyl acetate
39.3

B. rivae
NA
Limonene
28.0

B. rivae
Authentic sample

from Ethiopia
-Pinene
16.7

B. rivae
NA
-Pinene
13.3

B. rivae
NA
Octanol
17.8

B. neglecta
NA
-Pinene
16.7

B. neglecta
Authentic sample

from Ethiopia
-Pinene
21.3

B. papyrifera
NA
Octyl acetate
63.5

B. papyrifera
NA
Octyl acetate
56.0

B. pirottae
NA
trans-Verbenol
15.5

B. pirottae
NA
Terpinen-4-ol
14.6

B. frereana
Willy Benecke

GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
-Pinene
38.0

NA: not available.