Pyrrolizidine alkaloid profiles in Crotalaria species from Brazil: Chemotaxonomic significance

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-469

  Flores, Andréia Silva ^a   Tozzi, Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo ^b   Trigo, José Roberto ^b  

^a Museu Integrado de Roraima   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

7 Hydroxy 1 methylene 8 pyrrolizidine; Calycinae; Chrysocalycinae; Crotalaria; GC MS; Hedriocarpae; Monocrotaline; Secopyrrolizidine; Senecionine

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; EXTRACTION METHOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEGUME; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CROTALARIA; CROTALARIA INCANA; CROTALARIA MICANS;

EID: 69849115862     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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