Exploring the potential of biologically active compounds from plants and fungi

Biologically Active Natural Products: Agrochemicals

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 231-242

  Gibson, Donna M ^a   Krasnoff, Stuart B ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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