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Why Musella lasiocarpa (Musaceae) is Used in Southwest China to Feed Pigs

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Experimental Center of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences for assisting with the laboratory analysis; the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2004DKA30430 and 2005DKA21006), 111 Project (B08044), and the U.S. National Science Foundation for financial support; Mr. Li–tao Liu for preparing the illustration; and Dr. Charles Peters of the New York Botanical Garden for his comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Chunlin Long, Selena Ahmed, Yitao Liu, Bo Long, Chunyan Yang, Yana Shi, Xingyu Li & Rong Guo

  2. College of Life and Environment Sciences, Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, China

    Chunlin Long

  3. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, USA

    Selena Ahmed

  4. The New York Botanical Garden, New York, USA

    Selena Ahmed

  5. Laboratory of Biology, Yongzhou Vocation College, Hunan, China

    Xiaorong Wang

  6. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Bo Long & Chunyan Yang

  7. Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China

    Yana Shi, Xingyu Li & Rong Guo

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Long, C., Ahmed, S., Wang, X. et al. Why Musella lasiocarpa (Musaceae) is Used in Southwest China to Feed Pigs. Econ Bot 62, 182–186 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-008-9013-z

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