Phenolic compounds are naturally occurring secondary metabolites from various plants. These compounds play important roles in plant such as antioxident, antibacterial and anticancer effects. The purpose of this research was to analyze the phenolic compounds contents in Kenaf leaf and stem using High Performance Liquid Chromatograpy. Kenaf is widely distributed throughout the country and third largest fiber crop. Recently, interest in this crop is growing. But, there is little research on their functional material. The obtained results showed that phenolic compounds were significantly various among the examined cultivars of Kenaf. Especially, phenolic compounds contents of leaf were higher than those of stem. The highest concentration of phenolic compounds was in the E41 leaf(24358.99㎍/g) and the lowest concentration was in the Kenaf (in korea) stem(988.21㎍/g). The results of this experiment showed that its contents were different in leaf and stem. These results suggested that Kenaf can be used for functional plant.

• Sun-Jin Kim(Konkuk University) Corresponding author
• Eun-Hye Kim(Konkuk University)
• Seok-Ju Kim(Konkuk University)
• Hyun-Seok Jeon(Konkuk University)
• Min-A Yeo(Konkuk University)
• Yoon-Mi Jun(Konkuk University)
• Jin-Hee Park(Konkuk University)
• Jung-Woong Kwon(Konkuk University)
• Sung-Hyun Song(Konkuk University)
• Soo-Jung Yong(Konkuk University)
• Mi-So Jang(Konkuk University)
• Chang-Yeon Yu(College of agriculture and Life science, Kangwon National University)
• Hong-Keun Song(Konkuk University)
• Jong-Guk Ahn(Konkuk University)
• Ill-Min Chung(Konkuk University)