Chemical composition of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) from four countries

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 650, Issue , 2004, Pages 321-326

  Caballero Ortega, Heriberto ^a   Pereda Miranda, Rogelio ^b   Riverón Negrete, Leticia ^a   Hernández, Juan M ^a   Medécigo Ríos, Mayra ^a   Castillo Villanueva, Adriana ^a   Abdullaev, Fikrat I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chemopreventive agent; Cytotoxicity; HPLC method

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645170372     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.650.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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