Current market trends: Critical issues and economic importance of sesame

Sesame: The Genus Sesamum

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 423-490

  Bedigian, Dorothea ^a  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/b13601     Document Type: Chapter

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