Chemical composition of the epicuticular and intracuticular wax layers on the adaxial side of Ligustrum vulgare leaves

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 311-316

  Buschhaus, Christopher ^a   Herz, Hubert ^b   Jetter, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Cuticular wax; Leaf surface; Plant cuticles; Privet (Ligustrum vulgare); Triterpenoids

Indexed keywords

TRITERPENE; WAX;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLOROFORM; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; SHRUB;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGUSTRUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT LEAF; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; LIGUSTRUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT LEAVES; TRITERPENES; WAXES;

ACACIA SENEGAL; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM VULGARE; PRUNUS; PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS;

EID: 34748872633     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02190.x     Document Type: Article

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