Chemotaxonomic significance of volatile compounds in Thymus samius and its related species Thymus atticus and Thymus parnassicus

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1131-1140

  Tzakou, Olga ^a   Constantinidis, Theophanis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemotaxonomy; Essential oils variation; Greece; Hybrid; Labiatae; Thymus

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTAXONOMY; ESSENTIAL OIL; HYBRID;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SAMOS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

LAMIACEAE; THYMUS (THYME); THYMUS ZYGIOIDES;

EID: 27144553770     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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