Chapter 2 Pesticides based on plant essential oils: from traditional practice to commercialization

Advances in Phytomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2006, Pages 29-44

  Isman, Murray B ^a   Machial, Cristina M ^a  

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EID: 77957087763     PISSN: 1572557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-557X(06)03002-9     Document Type: Review

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