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Blue mahoe, a case of incipient plant domestication

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    Clarissa T. Kimber

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Field work for this study was supported by the Foreign Field Research Program of the Division of Earth Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council and financed by the Geography Branch Office of Naval Research under Contract Nonr-2300(09) Subcontract No. 55 and by a grant from the Dean’s Discretionary Fund, Texas University, Geosciences Account 15503-ORR.

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Kimber, C.T. Blue mahoe, a case of incipient plant domestication. Econ Bot 24, 233–240 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860660

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