A chemotaxonomic approach to the alkane content of three species of Anthocleista Afzel. (Loganiaceae)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1516-1520

  Sonibare, Mubo A ^a   Soladoye, M O ^b   Ekine Ogunlana, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Alkane distribution; Anthocleista; Chemotaxonomy; Leaf alkanes; Leaf wax; Loganiaceae

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; DOTRIACONTANE; HENTRIACONTANE; HEPTACOSANE; HEPTRIACONTANE; HEXACOSANE; HEXATRIACONTANE; NONACOSANE; OCTACOSANE; PENTACOSANE; PENTATRIACONTANE; TETRACOSANE; TETRATRIACONTANE; TRIACOSANE; TRITRIACONTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTHOCLEISTA AFZEL; ANTHOCLEISTA DJALONENSI; ANTHOCLEISTA VOGELII; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LOGANIACEAE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANTHOCLEISTA; ANTHOCLEISTA DJALONENSIS; ANTHOCLEISTA NOBILIS; ANTHOCLEISTA VOGELII; LOGANIACEAE;

EID: 34447580237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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