Nitro compounds in Astragalus species from Iran

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 743-751

  Ebrahimzadeh, Hassan ^a   Niknam, Vahid ^a   Maassoumi, Ali Asghar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTS AND RANGELANDS   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aliphatic nitro toxin; Astragalus; Chemotaxonomy; Leguminosae; Poisonous plants

Indexed keywords

3 NITRO 1 PROPANOL; 3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PLANT TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ASTRAGALUS;

EID: 0033215896     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(99)00012-5     Document Type: Article

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