title: Chemotaxonomy of mints of genus Mentha by applying Raman spectroscopy.
abstract: The characterization of mints is often problematic because Mentha is a taxonomically complex genus. In order to provide a fast and easy characterization method, we use a combination of micro-Raman spectroscopy and hierarchical cluster analysis. A classification trial of different mint taxa is possible for one collection time. For spectra measured at different points during the growing season, a more sophisticated pretreatment of the data is necessary to receive good discrimination between the species, as well as between the subspecies and varieties of the mints.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, Germany.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rösch
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kiefer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Popp
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D027541:Mentha / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D010802:Phylogeny; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000379:methods*