Isolation and characterization of quinine from Polygonatum verticillatum: A new marker approach to identify substitution and adulteration

• Main Authors: Jaswinder Kaur Virk (Author), Sanjiv Kumar (Author), Ranjit Singh (Author), Avinash C Tripathi (Author), Shailendra K Saraf (Author), Vikas Gupta (Author), Parveen Bansal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Polygonatum verticillatum (Mahameda) is an important ingredient of Ashtawarga and Ayurvedic formulations. Nowadays, it comes under the category of endangered plants due to large scale and indiscriminate collection of wild material. To overcome the scarcity, substitutes of Mahameda are also commonly...