Methods for analysis of pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Natural Products: Phytochemistry, Botany and Metabolism of Alkaloids, Phenolics and Terpenes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1049-1068

  Crews, Colin ^a  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comfrey; Echium; Gas chromatography; Honey feed; Immunoassay; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Pyrrolizidine alkaloids; Ragwort; Senecio; Solid phase extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944866451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_186     Document Type: Chapter

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