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The search for new drugs from plants poses a number of problems. Collection, identification, selection, and testing of plants, as well as the extraction and isolation of potentially useful constituents are discussed, wih reference to the alkaloids as examples, from the point of view of the industrial research laboratory.
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First Annual Symposium; Integrated Research in Economic Plants. Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, May 21, 22, 1960.
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Raffauf, R.F. Plants as sources of new drugs. Econ Bot 14, 276–279 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02908036
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02908036