Effects of ultraviolet radiation and PAR on the content of usnic and divaricatic acids in two arctic-alpine lichens

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 678-685

  Bjerke, Jarle W ^a   Lerfall, Kjetil ^a   Elvebakk, Arve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVARICATIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USNIC ACID; BENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; LICHENS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ARCTIC; KINETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CETRARIA NIVALIS; FLAVOCETRARIA; OPHIOPARMA; OPHIOPARMA VENTOSA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BENZOFURANS; KINETICS; LICHENS; LIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036768817     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b203399b     Document Type: Article

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