Exudate flavones and flavanones in Origanum species and their interspecific variation

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 646-654

  Skoula, Melpomene ^a,b   Grayer, Renée J ^c   Kite, Geoffrey C ^c   Veitch, Nigel C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5,4 Dihydroxy 6,7,3 trimethoxyflavanone; Chemotaxonomy; Dihydroflavonols; Flavanones; Flavones; Lamiaceae; Origanum

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DETECTION METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS;

LAMIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORIGANUM;

EID: 47249083330     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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