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Distinguished Economic Botanists’ address delivered 12 June 1990 at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison (delayed publication resulting from illness of the author).
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Baker, H.G. The continuing evolution of weeds. Econ Bot 45, 445–449 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930705
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