Geographical variations of the essential oils in natural populations of cupressus atlantica gaussen in high atlas mountains (morocco)

Journal of Essential Oil-Bearing Plants

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-66

  Arjouni, My Youssef ^a,b   Romane, Abderrahmane ^a   El Fels, My Ahmed El Alaoui ^b   Boukir, Abdellatif ^c   Romdhane, Mehrez ^d   Roques, Alain ^e   Yart, Annie ^e  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d Mechanical Modeling Energy and Materials Research Unit   (Tunisia)

^e Inst Natl de la Rech Agronom   (France)

Author keywords

Cupressus atlantica; Essential oil composition; GC; GC MS; Sesquiter pene

Indexed keywords

CUPRESSACEAE; CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS ATLANTICA;

EID: 79959535157     PISSN: 0972060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0972060X.2011.10643901     Document Type: Article

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