ArticleScientific reports2025
Quality assessment and chemical diversity of Australian propolis from Tetragonula carbonaria and Tetragonula hockingsi stingless bees.
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- From Chemistry to Bioactivity: HS-SPME-GC-MS Profiling and Bacterial Growth Inhibition of Three Different Propolis Samples from Romania, Australia, and Uruguay.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Metabolomics and molecular networking studies to uncover the chemodiversity of threeRSC advances · 2025Article
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Stingless bee propolis has gained global attention as a novel source of bioactive compounds with potential applications in food and medicine to promote human health. However, research on Australian stingless bee propolis remains limited as much of propolis is discarded by Australian beekeepers due to a lack of understanding its value. This study aimed to assess and compare the quality and chemical diversity of propolis from two Australian stingless bee species Tetragonula carbonaria and Tetragonula hockingsi across Queensland and New South Wales. Chemical assays revealed that T. hockingsi propolis had significantly higher total phenolic and flavonoid contents than T. carbonaria. Australian stingless bee propolis also showed high phenolic but moderate flavonoid content compared to international propolis sources. The phenolic content displayed geographical dependence, decreasing from northern to southern regions. The analyses of uHPLC-QTOF MS and
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