Tese de mestrado em Biologia (Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia) apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Ciências, 2007In the past years chemical analyses and molecular markers have been used widely in the identification of cultivars and in the chemical and genetic relationship analyses of individuals and species contributing vastly for the evolutionary and ecological studies. This study aimed at a deeper research of some aromatic plants of the Portuguese flora, these included Thymus caespititius, Crithmum maritimum, Ammi huntii, Angelica lignescens, Melanoselinum decipiens and Chaerophyllum azoricum, carrying out a joint approach of the chemical composition of essential oils and the analysis of molecular markers. Chemic...