The inheritance of volatile phenylpropenes in bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill. var. vulgare, Apiaceae) chemotypes and their distribution within the plant

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 308-316

  Gross, Michal ^a,b,c   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Tadmor, Yaakov ^a   Bar, Einat ^a   Dudai, Nativ ^a   Cohen, Yael ^b   Friedman, Jacob ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bitter fennel; Chemotypes; Estragole; Foeniculum vulgare var. vulgare; Inheritance; Phenylpropenes; t Anethole

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; DOMINANCE; ESSENTIAL OIL; FLOWER; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; HERITABILITY; HYBRID; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMORPHISM; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

APIACEAE; APIALES; FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 69649095083     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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