A reservoir of ethnobotanical knowledge informs resilient food security and health strategies in the Balkans

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Quave, Cassandra L ^a,b   Pieroni, Andrea ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

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EID: 84930209685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2014.21     Document Type: Article

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