Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Seeds in Food, Nutrition, and Health

Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1029-1036

  Elleuch, Mohamed ^a   Bedigian, Dorothea ^b   Zitoun, Adel ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

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EID: 84856254741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-375688-6.10122-7     Document Type: Chapter

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