Diurnal variation of major alkaloids in Papaver somniferum

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Shukla, Sudhir ^a   Khanna, K R ^a   Singh, S P ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Codeine; DOPA; Morphine; Narcotine; Opium poppy; Papaver somniferum; Papaverine; Thebaine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004638379     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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