Volatile components of banana pseudostem of a cultivar susceptible to the banana weevil

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Hassanali, Ahmed
Ndiege, I. O.
Budenberg, W. J.
Lwande, W.
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Volatiles from banana (‘githumo’'cultivar) pseudostem were trapped using porapak S. The trapped volatiles were desorbed from porapak columns by elution with dichloromethane and analysed using GC and GC-MS. The volatile compounds identified included α-pinene, β-pinene, β-myrcene, limonene, α-cubebene, α-copaene, α-cedrene, β-caryophyllene and α-humulene