Determination of colchicine content in Colchicum hierosolymitanum and Colchicum tunicatum under cultivation

Natural Product Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 395-400

  Al Fayyad, M ^a   Alali, F ^b   Alkofahi, Ahmad ^b   Tell, Abdelmajeed ^c  

^a National Center for Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Jordan   (Jordan)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Colchicine; Colchicum hierosolymitanum; Colchicum tunicatum; Jordan medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; FERTILIZER;

ARTICLE; COLCHICUM; COLCHICUM HIEROSOLYMITANUM; COLCHICUM TUNICATUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRY WEIGHT; FLOWER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

ALKALOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLCHICINE; COLCHICUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FERTILIZERS; FLOWERS; JORDAN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 0036889879     PISSN: 10575634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10575630290033178     Document Type: Article

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