Chemical profiling of Ocimum americanum using external flavonoids

Phytochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 555-567

  Vieira, Roberto F ^a,b   Grayer, Renée J ^b   Paton, Alan J ^b  

^a EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authentication; Basil; Chemotaxonomy; External flavones; Infraspecific variability; Lamiaceae; O. citriodorum; Ocimum americanum var. americanum; Ocimum americanum var. pilosum

Indexed keywords

FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; NEVADENSIN; SALVIGENIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOMICROL;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHEMOTAXONOMY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERB; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM AMERICANUM; OCIMUM FISCHERI; OCIMUM FORSKOLEI; OCIMUM KENYENSE; OCIMUM KILIMANDSCHARICUM;

BASILICUM; LAMIACEAE; OCIMUM; OCIMUM AMERICANUM; OCIMUM AMERICANUM VAR. PILOSUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OCIMUM CANUM; OCIMUM KILIMANDSCHARICUM;

EID: 0037665224     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(03)00143-2     Document Type: Article

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