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Chemosystematics of tea trees based on tea leaf polyphenols as phenetic markers.
Phytochemistry - 1 Aug 2010
Li Jia-Hua, Nesumi Atsushi, Shimizu Keiichi, Sakata Yusuke, Liang Ming-Zhi, He Qing-Yuan, Zhou Hong-Jie, Hashimoto Fumio
Abstract excerpt
This study examined the polyphenols of tea leaves as chemotaxonomic markers to investigate the phenetic relationship between 89 wild (the small-leaved C.sinensis var. sinensis and large-leaved C. sinensis var. assamica), hybrid, and cultivated tea trees from China and Japan. (-)-Epigallocatechin 3-O-gallate, EGCG (1); (-)-epigallocatechin, EGC (2); (-)-epicatechin 3-O-gallate, ECG (3); (-)-epicatechin, EC (4);...
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