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Chemotaxonomy of mints of genus Mentha by applying Raman spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Rösch P.,
Kiefer W.,
Popp J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
biopolymers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1097-0282
pISSN - 0006-3525
DOI - 10.1002/bip.10099
Subject(s) - subspecies , genus , taxon , chemotaxonomy , botany , chemistry , biology , zoology , taxonomy (biology)
The characterization of mints is often problematic because Mentha is a taxonomically complex genus. In order to provide a fast and easy characterization method, we use a combination of micro‐Raman spectroscopy and hierarchical cluster analysis. A classification trial of different mint taxa is possible for one collection time. For spectra measured at different points during the growing season, a more sophisticated pretreatment of the data is necessary to receive good discrimination between the species, as well as between the subspecies and varieties of the mints. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers (Biospectroscopy) 67: 358–361, 2002