Lichens as a potential source of bioactive secondary metabolites

Lichen Secondary Metabolites: Bioactive Properties and Pharmaceutical Potential

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-26

  Ranković, Branislav ^a   Kosanić, Marijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

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