Quantification of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) metabolites crocins, picrocrocin and safranal for quality determination of the spice grown under different environmental Moroccan conditions

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 366-373

  Lage, Mounira ^a   Cantrell, Charles L ^b  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (Morocco)

^b NATURAL PRODUCTS UTILIZATION RESEARCH UNIT   (United States)

Author keywords

Crocins; Environment; HPLC; Mass spectrometry; Picrocrocin purification; Saffron (Crocus sativus L.); Safranal

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COMMERCIALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HERB; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

EID: 67349086614     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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