Norstictic acid: Correlations between its physico-chemical characteristics and ecological preferences of lichens producing this depsidone

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-313

  Hauck, Markus ^a   Jürgens, Sascha René ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depsidones; Dissociation constant (pKa1); Lichen substances; Metal complexation; Nutrients; UV spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL; CYTOPLASM; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LICHEN; METHANOL; PH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SPECTROSCOPY; TRACE ELEMENT;

FUNGI;

EID: 77649211111     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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