Chemical studies on the constituents of linum spp.

Flax: The Genus Linum

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 55-73

  Westcott, Neil D ^a   Muir, Alister D ^a  

^a SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

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