Chemical Composition of the Essential Oils from Cultivated and Wild Grown St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 643-646

  Chatzopoulou, Paschalina S ^a   Koutsos, Theodoros V ^a   Katsiotis, Stavros T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

2 methyloctane; Essential oil composition; Germacrene D; Guttiferae; Hypericum perforatum; St. John's Wort; pinene; caryophyllene

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; ESSENTIAL OILS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CARYOPHYLLENES; GERMACRENE D; GUTTIFERAE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; METHYLOCTANES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CULTIVATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PINENES; PLANTS; VOLATILE OIL;

CLUSIACEAE; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

EID: 33751224148     PISSN: 10412905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10412905.2006.9699192     Document Type: Article

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