Tracing domestication and cultivation of bananas from phytoliths: An update from Papua New Guinea

Ethnobotany Research and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 247-270

  Lentfer, Carol J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIMUSA; ENSETE; MUSA; MUSA ACUMINATA; MUSACEAE;

EID: 73649144673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15473465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17348/era.7.0.247-270     Document Type: Article

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