Economic Botany

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  • Kenneth R. Robertson
  • Dorothea Bedigian
  • Daniel F. Austin
  • Nigist Asfaw
  • Sebsebe Demissew
  • Richard Felger
  • Neil A. Harriman
  • Cath Cotton
  • Lytton John Musselman
  • Edward D. Stone
  • Timothy Johns
  • Shengquan Liu
  • Richard J. Campbell
  • Joseph A. Weinstock
  • Will Mcclatchey
  • Julie Anne Ferguson Demers
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kenneth R. Robertson
    • 1
  • Dorothea Bedigian
    • 2
  • Daniel F. Austin
    • 3
  • Nigist Asfaw
    • 4
  • Sebsebe Demissew
    • 4
  • Richard Felger
    • 5
  • Neil A. Harriman
    • 6
  • Cath Cotton
    • 7
  • Lytton John Musselman
    • 8
  • Edward D. Stone
    • 9
  • Timothy Johns
    • 10
  • Shengquan Liu
    • 11
  • Richard J. Campbell
    • 12
  • Joseph A. Weinstock
    • 13
  • Will Mcclatchey
    • 14
  • Julie Anne Ferguson Demers
    • 15
  1. 1.Center For BiodiversityIllinois Natural History SurveyChampaign
  2. 2.Yellow Springs
  3. 3.Department Of Biological SciencesFlorida Atlantic UniversityBoca Raton
  4. 4.The National Herbarium, Science FacultyAddis Abeba UniversityAddis AbebaEthiopia
  5. 5.Drylands InstituteTucson
  6. 6.Biology DepartmentUniversity Of Wisconsin-OshkoshOshkoshUSA
  7. 7.School Of Life SciencesRoehampton Institute LondonUK
  8. 8.Department Of Biological SciencesUniversity of JordanAmmanJordan
  9. 9.Associates Penelope Honychurch Billingham Planners And Landscape ArchitectsFort Lauderdale
  10. 10.Centre For Indigenous People≿s Nutrition And The EnvironmentMacdonald Campus, Mcgill UniversitySte. Anne De BellevueCanada
  11. 11.Department of ChemistryOklahoma State UniversityStillwater
  12. 12.Curator of Tropical FruitFairchild Tropical GardenMiami
  13. 13.Office of Environment And Social DevelopmentAsian Development BankManilaPhilippines
  14. 14.Department of BotanyUniversity of HawaiiManoa Honolulu
  15. 15.Department of BotanyUniversity of FloridaGainesville

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