African crop or poisonous nightshade; the enigma of poisonous or edible black nightshade solved

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 158-161

  Olet, Eunice A ^a,b   Heun, Manfred ^a   Lye, Kåre A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDIBLE SPECIES;

SOLANUM; SOLANUM NIGRUM;

EID: 20444482500     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2005.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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