Article
Factors affecting chemical variability of essential oils: a review of recent developments.
Natural product communications - 1 Aug 2009
Barra Andrea
Abstract excerpt
This review, covering mainly papers of the last decade, focuses on recent findings on the different factors affecting the chemical composition of essential oils, such as exogenous and endogenous factors. The endogenous factors are related to anatomical and physiological characteristics of the plants and to the biosynthetic pathways of the volatiles, which might change in either the different tissues of the plants...
Topics
- Ecosystem
- Genotype
- Light
- Models, Molecular
- Oils, Volatile
- Plants
- Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
- Seasons
- Soil
- Species Specificity
