New observations on the secondary chemistry of world Ephedra (Ephedraceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1199-1208

  Caveney, Stanley ^a   Charlet, David A ^b   Freitag, Helmut ^c   Maier Stolte, Maria ^c   Starratt, Alvin N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Social Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

6 hydroxykynurenic acid; 6 methoxykynurenic acid; cis 3,4 methanoproline; Ephedra; Ephedrine alkaloids; Kynurenic acid; L 2 (carboxycyclopropyl)glycine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001052307     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3558330     Document Type: Article

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