Minor flavonoids (chalcones, flavanones, dihydrochalcones, and aurones)

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1867-1900

  Ninomiya, Masayuki ^a   Koketsu, Mamoru ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aurone; Chalcone; Dihydrochalcone; Flavanone

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038263129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_62     Document Type: Chapter

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