Methyl anthranilate is the cause of cultivar-specific aroma in the Japanese tea cultivar 'Sofu'

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-274

  Sawai, Yusuke ^a   Yamaguchi, Yuichi ^a   Tanaka, Junichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

'Fujikaori'; 'Shizu Inzatsu 131'; Gas chromatography (GC); Simultaneous distillation extraction (SDE)

Indexed keywords

CAMELLIA; CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 13444254042     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.38.271     Document Type: Article

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