A comparative chemotaxonomic study of eight taxa of the Dipsacaceae family |
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| Authors: | Dimitrios Kyriakou Perdetzoglou Constantin Kofinas Ioanna Chinou Argyrios Loukis Catherine Harvala |
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| Institution: | Department of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacognosy, Panepistimiopolis Zografou , University of Athens , Athens-Hellas, GR- 157 71, Greece |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Eight taxa of the Dipsacaceae family were examined for their fatty acid and sterol composition. Separation and identification of the lipid fraction was achieved by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The phenotypic differences among taxa were established by cluster analysis. Correlation coefficients were obtained to investigate numerical relationships among constituents of the fatty acids. The results showed many significant correlations between different constituents, as well as four clusters of taxa using two linkage types of clustering. |
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| Keywords: | chemotaxonomy Dipsacaceae fatty acids sterols |
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