Isolation and identification of antifungal compounds from Amboyna wood

Holzforschung

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 170-172

  Kusuma, Irawan W ^a   Azuma, Masataka ^a   Darma, Tapa ^b   Itoh, Kazutaka ^a   Tachibana, Sanro ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Amboyna wood; Antifungal compound; Bioassay guided fractionation; Isoliquiritigenin; Liquiritigenin; Pterocarpol; Pterocarpus indicus; Wood rotting fungi

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844292736     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2005.026     Document Type: Article

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