Identification of safranal as the main allelochemical from saffron (crocus sativus)

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 775-777

  Mardani, Hossein ^a,c   Sekine, Takayuki ^b   Azizi, Majid ^c   Mishyna, Maryia ^a   Fujii, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Prefectural Agriculture and Horticulture Research Center   (Japan)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Dish Pack Method; Saffron; Safranal

Indexed keywords

SAFRANAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; PHEROMONE; PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENE;

ALLELOPATHY; ARTEMISIA AUCHERI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROCUS SATIVUS; DRACOCEPHALUM KOTSCHYI; EC50; LETTUCE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; SOLANUM NIGRUM; CHEMISTRY; CROCUS; DRUG EFFECTS; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

CROCUS; CYCLOHEXENES; FLOWERS; LETTUCE; PHEROMONES; PLANT EXTRACTS; TERPENES;

EID: 84954222426     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x1501000519     Document Type: Article

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