Screening the essential oil composition of wild Sicilian fennel

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-223

  Napoli, Edoardo M ^a   Curcuruto, Giusy ^a   Ruberto, Giuseppe ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Essential oil; Estragole; Fenchone; Foeniculum vulgare subsp. capillaceum var. vulgare (Mill.) Thell.; Foeniculum vulgare subsp. piperitum (Ucria) Coutinho; GC MS; Sicily

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESSENTIAL OIL; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SEED; TERPENE; WILD POPULATION;

FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 77949571425     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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