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A report on biocompounds from palm fossil of India
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Authors |
Dinesh Chandra Sharma1, Mohd Sajid Khan1, M Salman Khan1, Rashmi Srivastava2, Ashwini Kumar Srivastava1* & Ritu Shukla1
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Affiliation |
11Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow-226026, India; 2Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow-226007, India
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srivastava019@gmail.com; *Corresponding authors
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Article Type |
Views & Challenges
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Date |
Received April 21, 2014; Accepted April 22, 2014; Published May 20, 2014 |
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Abstract |
The occurrence of a large number of fossil woods having resemblance in anatomical features with the modern palm genus, Phoenix L in Deccan Intertrappean fossil flora of Maastrichtian-Danian age (i. e. Late Cretaceous and Earliest Tertiary (65-67 my)) indicates the most primitive record of date palm. Present discovery of biocompounds from fossil wood of Phoenix collected from Deccan Intertrappean having affinity with the biocompounds known from modern plant further exemplify the earliest documentation of Phoenix in Indian peninsula.
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Keywords |
Fossil wood, Indian date palm, Phoenix, Biocompounds, First record
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Citation |
Sharma et al.
Bioinformation 10(5): 316-319 (2014) |
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Edited by |
P Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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License |
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |