Diversity and variability of plant secondary metabolism: A mechanistic view

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 177-188

  Hartmann, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

biosynthesis; constitutive defence; intraspecific variation; pyrrolizidine alkaloids; secondary plant metabolites; structural diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029784144     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb00914.x     Document Type: Review

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