Aromatic plants as a source of bioactive compounds

Agriculture (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-243

  Christaki, Efterpi ^a   Bonos, Eleftherios ^b   Giannenas, Ilias ^a   Florou Paneri, Panagiota ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aromatic plants; Bioactive compounds; Polyphenolics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85070963482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture2030228     Document Type: Review

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