Genetic and withaferin A analysis of Iranian natural populations of Withania somnifera and W. coagulans by RAPD and HPTLC

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-346

  Mirjalili, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Fakhr Tabatabaei, Seyyed Mohammad ^a   Alizadeh, Houshang ^a   Ghassempour, Alireza ^b   Mirzajani, Fateme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

HPTLC; RAPD markers; Solanaceae; Variation; Withaferin A; Withania

Indexed keywords

DNA; WITHAFERIN A; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ERGOSTEROL; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; IRAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; WITHANIA COAGULANS; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; WITHANIA;

SOLANACEAE; WITHANIA; WITHANIA COAGULANS; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; ERGOSTEROL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; IRAN; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WITHANIA;

EID: 66149148984     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400307     Document Type: Article

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