Variation in leaf waxes of the Tasmanian Eucalyptus species - I. Subgenus Symphyomyrtus

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 631-657

  Li, H ^a,b   Madden, J L ^a,b   Potts, B M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products   (Australia)

Author keywords

diketones; Alcohols; Aldehydes; Chemotaxonomy; E. archeri; E. brookeriana; E. cordata; E. dalrympleana ssp. dalrympleana; E. globulus ssp. globulus; E. gunnii; E. johnstonii; E. morrisbyi; E. ovata; E. perriniana; E. rodwayi; E. rubida; E. subcrenulata; E. urnigera; E. vernicosa; E. viminalis ssp. viminalis; Esters; Eucalyptus barbari; Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus; Flavonoids; Leaf waxes; Long chain hydrocarbons; Myrtaceae; Ontogeny; Triterpenoids

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; EUCALYPTUS; KETONE;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EUCALYPTUS; SYMPHYOMYRTUS;

EID: 0030830585     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(97)00044-6     Document Type: Article

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