Distinguishing the medicinal herb Oldenlandia diffusa from similar species of the same genus using fluorescence microscopy

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 277-282

  Liang, Zhi Tao ^a   Jiang, Zhi Hong ^a   Leung, Kelvin Sze Yin ^a   Peng, Yong ^a   Zhao, Zhong Zhen ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese Materia Medica; Fluorescence microscope; Microscopic characteristics; Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxb.

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; MICROSCOPES;

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPES; LIGHT MICROSCOPES; MEDICINAL HERB; MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; MICROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION; OLDENLANDIUM DIFFUSA (WILLD.) ROXB.;

TISSUE;

MATERIA MEDICA;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; ENDODERM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENUS; HERB; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OLDENLANDIA; OLDENLANDIA CORYMBOSA; OLDENLANDIA DIFFUSA; OLDENLANDIA TENELLIFLORA; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

HEDYOTIS DIFFUSA; OLDENLANDIA; OLDENLANDIA CORYMBOSA;

EID: 33645946376     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20312     Document Type: Article

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