Secondary Metabolites of Plants from the
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Yu-Fang Wang; Zhi-Yu Ni; Mei Dong; Bin Cong; Qing-Wen Shi; Yu-Cheng Gu; Hiromasa
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The Asteraceae family comprises __ca.__ 1000 genera, mainly distributed in Asia and Europe. __Saussurea__ DC., as the largest subgenus of this family, comprises __ca.__ 400 species worldwide, of which __ca.__ 300 species occur in China. Most plants in China grow wild in the alpine zone