A comparative study on the needle volatile constituents of three abies species grown in south balkans

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-46

  Roussis, Vassilios ^a   Couladis, Maria ^a   Tzakou, Olga ^a   Loukis, Anargyros ^a   Petrakis, Panos V ^b   Dukic, Neda M ^c   Jancic, Radisa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Agriculture Athens   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Abies borisii regis; Abies cephalonica; Camphene; Chemotaxonomy; Essential oil composition; Evolution; Limonene; Pinaceae; fenchyl acetate; pinene; pinene

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002726152     PISSN: 10412905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10412905.2000.9712038     Document Type: Article

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