Cucurbitacin C - Bitter principle in cucumber plants

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-68

  Horie, Hideki ^a   Ito, Hidekazu ^a   Ippoushi, Katsunari ^a   Azuma, Keiko ^a   Sakata, Yoshiteru ^a   Igarashi, Isamu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analysis; Cucumis sativus l; HPLC; Isolation

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 33947270985     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.41.65     Document Type: Article

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