LIMITATIONS OF FOLIN ASSAYS OF FOLIAR PHENOLICS IN ECOLOGICAL STUDIES
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 27 (4) , 761-778
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010306103643
Abstract
We examined the response of the widely used Folin-Denis assay to purified tannins from 16 woody plant species and to three commercial polyphenol preparations often used as standards. The reagent's...Keywords
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