The animal pigment bilirubin identified in Strelitzia reginae, the Bird of Paradise Flower

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1411-1415

  Pirone, Cary ^a   Johnson, Jodie V ^b   Quirke, J Martin E ^a   Priestap, Horacio A ^a   Lee, David ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; HPLC UV; MS MS; Pigment; Tetrapyrrole

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAESALPINIA GILLIESII; NIGELLA SATIVA; STRELITZIA REGINAE;

EID: 77958116225     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.9.1411     Document Type: Article

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