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rutaceous

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rutaceous [ruːˈteɪʃəs]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) of, relating to, or belonging to the Rutaceae, a family of tropical and temperate flowering plants many of which have aromatic leaves. The family includes rue and citrus trees
[from New Latin Rutaceae, from Latin rūta rue2]


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Previous chemical studies on species of this genus revealed the presence of typical rutaceous metabolites like coumarins, alkaloids, flavonoids, limonoids and terpenoids (Dreyer et al.
The overall composition of four different classes of phenolic compounds absorbing at 285 nm (flavones, flavanones, coumarins/cinnamic acid derivatives and psoralens) for the Rutaceous species and cultivars was determined in leaf, flavedo, albedo and juice vesicle tissues.
Keywords: Murraya koenigii; Rutaceae; Carbazole alkaloids; Apoptosis; HL-60 cells; Caspases Introduction Our previous studies have reported the chemical constituents of Rutaceous plants and identified various types of chemical compounds in the genus Murraya (Ito et al.
 
 
 
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