Factors affecting chemical variability of essential oils: A review of recent developments

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1147-1154

  Barra, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical variability; Chemotaxonomy; Chemotype; Essential oils; Genotype

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; PLANT DNA;

ALTITUDE; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMOTAXONOMY; ECOTYPE; ENDOGENOUS VARIABLE; EXOGENOUS VARIABLE; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REVIEW; ROSEMARY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANACETUM VULGARE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGHT; PLANT; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OILS, VOLATILE; PLANTS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEASONS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 73949114245     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400827     Document Type: Review

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