Chemical Constituents and Antioxidant Properties of Matricaria recutita and Chamaemelum nobile Essential Oil Growing Wild in the South West of Iran

Journal of Essential Oil-Bearing Plants

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 531-537

  Farhoudi, Rozbeh ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

chamazulene; Chamomile; radical scavenging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887069972     PISSN: 0972060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0972060X.2013.813219     Document Type: Article

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