Metabolite profiling of Dioscorea (yam) species reveals underutilised biodiversity and renewable sources for high-value compounds

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Price, Elliott J ^a,b   Wilkin, Paul ^b   Sarasan, Viswambharan ^b   Fraser, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CASSAVA; CLADISTICS; FOLIAGE; FOOD CROP; GENOTYPE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; RHIZOME; SPECIES; SWEET POTATO; YAM; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PHYTOCHEMICAL; PLANT EXTRACT; SHIKIMIC ACID;

BIODIVERSITY; DIOSCOREA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; SHIKIMIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84978958259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29136     Document Type: Article

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