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Genetic diversity and variation of saponin contents in Panax notoginseng roots from a single farm.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 2 Nov 2005
Hong Deborah Y Q, Lau A J, Yeo C L, Liu X K, Yang C R, Koh H L, Hong Y
Abstract excerpt
Radix notoginseng, the root of Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F. H. Chen, has been widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Its main components, saponins, have been reported to have many pharmacological activities. To test the general assumption that herbs of a single species planted and harvested from a single location are uniform in chemical and genetic makeup, chemical analysis and DNA fingerprinting were...
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