Essential Oil Composition of Hypericum perforatum L. Var. Angustifolium DC Growing Wild in Sardinia (Italy)

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 533-535

  Pintore, Giorgio ^a   Chessa, Mario ^a   Boatto, GianPiero ^a   Cerri, Riccardo ^a   Usai, Marianna ^a   Tirillini, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

2 methyloctane; Essential oil composition; Germacrene D; Guttiferae; Hypericum perforatum var. Angustifolium

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

2-METHYLOCTANE; ESSENTIAL OIL COMPOSITION; GERMACRENE D; GUTTIFERAE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM VAR. ANGUSTIFOLIUM;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

CLUSIACEAE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

EID: 27744554642     PISSN: 10412905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10412905.2005.9698986     Document Type: Article

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