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Metabolic profiling of echinacea genotypes and a test of alternative taxonomic treatments.
Planta medica - 1 Feb 2009
Wu Lankun, Dixon Philip M, Nikolau Basil J, Kraus George A, Widrlechner Mark P, Wurtele Eve Syrkin
Abstract excerpt
The genus Echinacea is used as an herbal medicine to treat a variety of ailments. To better understand its potential chemical variation, 40 Echinacea accessions encompassing broad geographical and morphological diversity were evaluated under controlled conditions. Metabolites of roots from these accessions were analyzed by HPLC-photo diode array (HPLC-PDA), GC-MS, and multivariate statistical methods. In total,...
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