Opportunities and challenges for ethnobotany at the start of the twenty-first century

Plant-derived Natural Products: Synthesis, Function, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 127-140

  Simmonds, Monique S J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84886566574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-85498-4_5     Document Type: Chapter

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