Influence of the habitat altitude on the (proto)hypericin and (proto)pseudohypericin levels of Hypericum plants from Crete

Planta Medica

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1496-1503

  Xenophontos, Marina ^a,b   Stavropoulos, Ilias ^a,b   Avramakis, Emmanuel ^b   Navakoudis, Eleni ^a,b   Dörnemann, Dieter ^b,c   Kotzabasis, Kiriakos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Natural History Museum of Crete   (Greece)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

(proto)hypericin; (proto)pseudohypericin; Habitat altitude; Hypericaceae; Hypericum species

Indexed keywords

HYPERICIN; HYPERICUM EXTRACT; PROTOHYPERICIN; PROTOPSEUDOHYPERICIN; PSEUDOHYPERICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FLOWERING; GREECE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM EMPETRIFOLIUM; HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; HYPERICUM TRIQUENTRIFOLIUM; METABOLITE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLOWERS; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HYPERICUM; LIGHT; PERYLENE; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

CLUSIACEAE; HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM EMPETRIFOLIUM; HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM;

EID: 54249130441     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1081337     Document Type: Article

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