Land-based classification of herb's origin based on supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition of plant and soil chemical profiling

Analytical Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2031-2048

  Tsogas, G Z ^a   Giokas, D L ^a   Kapakoglou, N I ^a   Efstathiou, D E ^a   Vlessidis, A G ^a   Dimitrellos, G N ^b   Georgiadis, T D ^b   Charchanti, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Cluster analysis; Discriminant analysis; Herbs; Mineral elements; Phenolics and flavonoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955627120     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032711003783168     Document Type: Article

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