Toxic nitro compounds in Astragalus species

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 557-562

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTS AND RANGELANDS   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aliphatic nitro toxins; Astragalus; Bifurcate haired; Chemical defense; Fabaceae; Simple haired

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; PLANT DEFENSE;

ASTRAGALUS; BOS TAURUS; FABACEAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0037883323     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(02)00179-5     Document Type: Article

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