Study of quantitative and qualitative variations in essential oils of Sicilian oregano biotypes

Journal of Essential Oil Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 293-306

  Licata, Mario ^a   Tuttolomondo, Teresa ^a   Dugo, Giacomo ^b   Ruberto, Giuseppe ^c   Leto, Claudio ^a   Napoli, Edoardo M ^c   Rando, Rossana ^b   Rita Fede, Maria ^b   Virga, Giuseppe ^a   Leone, Raffaele ^a   La Bella, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

essential oil; Origanum vulgare subspecies hirtum (Link) Ietswaart; Principal Component Analysis; thymol chemotype; wild plants

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PHENOLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMOTYPES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ESSENTIAL OIL YIELDS; ORIGANUM VULGARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; TRANS-SABINENE HYDRATE; WILD PLANTS;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM VULGARE;

EID: 84931957875     PISSN: 10412905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10412905.2015.1045088     Document Type: Article

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