The importance of traditional uses and nutraceutical aspects of some edible wild plants in human nutrition: the case of Umbria (central Italy)

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-306

  Ranfa, Aldo ^a   Maurizi, Angela ^a   Romano, Bruno ^a   Bodesmo, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant properties; edible wild plants; ethnobotanical analysis; traditional use

Indexed keywords

SANGUISORBA; SANGUISORBA MINOR;

EID: 84898925183     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2013.770805     Document Type: Article

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