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  1. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, USA

    Darron Collins

  2. Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden And Washington University, St. Louis

    Dorothea Bedigian

  3. Laboratories of Ethnobiology Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, USA

    John R. Stepp

  4. Biology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 54901, Oshkosh, WI

    Neil A. Harriman

  5. College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 54481, Stevens Point, WI

    Mai Morshidi

  6. Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, 62901-6509, Carbondale, IL

    David J. Gibson

  7. Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

    Kevin D. Janni

  8. Department of Biology, Washington University, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Memory Elvin-Lewis

  9. División De Biología Vegetal, Universidad Miguel Hernández, España

    C. Obón De Castro

  10. Departamento De Biología Vegetal, Facultad De Biología, Universidad De Murcia, España

    D. Rivera NúÑez

  11. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK

    Ann Butler

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Austin, D.F., Collins, D., Bedigian, D. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 55, 169–180 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02864553

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