Betaines in four additional phyla of green plants

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-103

  Blunden, Gerald ^a   Patel, Asmita ^a   Romero, Maricela Adrian ^b   Guiry, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Betaines; Bryophyta; Glycinebetaine; Lycopodiophyta; Marchantiophyta; Pteridophyta; Trigonelline

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; GLYCINEBETAINE; PLANT EXTRACT; TRIGONELLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ADIANTUM; ADIANTUM CAPILLUS VENERIS; AMPHIDIUM MOUGEOTII; ARTICLE; ASPLENIUM RUTA MURARIA; ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES; ATHYRIUM FILIX FEMINA; BLECHNUM SPICANT; BRACKEN FERN; CLUBMOSS; CRYPTOGRAMMA CRISPA; CYATHEA CAPENSIS; CYRTOMIUM FORTUNEII; DICKSONIA ANTARCTICA; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; EQUISETUM TELMATEIA; EURYNCHIUM PRAELONGUM; FERN; FISSIDENS ADIANTHOIDES; GRIMMIA PULVINATA; HUPERZIA SELAGO; LIVERWORT; LUNULARIA CRUCIATA; LYCOPODIUM; MARCHANTIA CRUCIATA; MOSS; NONHUMAN; OSMUNDA REGALIS; PHYLLITIS SCOLOPENDRIUM; PHYLUM; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYPODIUM VULGARE; POLYTRICHUM COMMUNE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PTERIDACEAE; PTERIS CRETICA; RACOMITRUM LANUGINOSUM; SELAGINELLA KRAUSSIANA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPHAGNUM AURICULATUM; SPHAGNUM PALUSTRE; THUIDIUM TAMARISCINUM; UNITED KINGDOM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLISM; PLANT;

BRYOPHYTA; EQUISETALES; EQUISETUM TELMATEIA; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

BETAINE; PLANTS;

EID: 66849137827     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400122     Document Type: Article

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