Bast fibres: From plants to products

Industrial Crops and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 308-325

  Chen, Jonathan Y ^a   Liu, Frank ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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