Chapter one The enzymatic basis of flavonoid biodiversity

Recent Advances in Phytochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue C, 2003, Pages 1-36

  Ibrahim, Ragai K ^a   Anzellotti, Dominique ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

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