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1Department of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Planta Medica
|May 1, 1982
Abstract:
Root cultures derived from cell suspension cultures of Papaver bracteatum were shown to produce thebaine (yield 0.03%).
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