The highly toxic Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux as a root vegetable in the Qinling Mountains (Shaanxi, China)

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1569-1575

  Kang, Yongxiang ^a   Łuczaj, Łukasz Jakub ^b   Ye, Sebastian ^c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aconitum carmichaelii; Detoxification; Domestication; Ethnobotany; Functional foods; Tubers; Underground organs

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; CULTIVATION; DETOXIFICATION; DOMESTICATION; ETHNOBOTANY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GENETIC RESOURCE; MEDICINAL PLANT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; ROOT VEGETABLE; TOXIC ORGANISM; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TUBER; VILLAGE;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SHAANXI;

ACONITUM; ACONITUM CARMICHAELII;

EID: 84866437897     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-012-9853-3     Document Type: Article

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