Seasonal climate effects on flavanols and purine alkaloids of tea (Camellia sinensis L.)

European Food Research and Technology

Volumn 233, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1049-1055

  Wang, L Y ^a   Wei, K ^a   Jiang, Y W ^a   Cheng, H ^a   Zhou, J ^a   He, W ^a   Zhang, C C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Camellia sinensis; Flavanol; Purine alkaloid; Seasonal climate effect

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CLIMATE EFFECTS; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVANOL; GALLATE; HANGZHOU; PURINE ALKALOID; REGRESSION MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEASONAL CLIMATE CHANGE; TOTAL CONTENT;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; METABOLITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 81355160201     PISSN: 14382377     EISSN: 14382385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00217-011-1588-4     Document Type: Article

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