Variability in essential oil chemistry and plant morphology within a leptospermum scoparium population

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-133

  Porter, N G ^a   Smale, P E ^a   Nelson, M A ^a   Hay, A J ^a   Van Klink, J W ^b   Dean, C M ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Essential oil; Leptospermum scoparium; Manuka; Monoterpenes; Morphology; Sesquiterpenes; Variability

Indexed keywords

LIPID ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY;

LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM;

EID: 0031853460     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1998.9512551     Document Type: Article

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