Yield of essential oil and safrole content based on fresh and dry biomass of long pepper in the Brazilian Amazon
Long pepper (Piper hispidinervum) is an Amazonian species of commercial interest due to the production of safrole. Drying long pepper biomass to extract safrole is a time consuming and costly process that can also result in the contamination of the material by microorganisms. The objective of this s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Acta Amazonica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aa/v45n1/0044-5967-aa-45-01-00075.pdf |