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Introduction

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Biotechnology in one form or another has always existed. When Hammurabi, the powerful ruler of Babylon, threatened to severely punish adulteration of beer around 2000 B.C., he was concerned with the untampered taste of the drink popular then as now. Not only the importance of plant substances as ingredients of beverages, but also of medicines (Marini-Bettolo 1980; Farnsworth 1977), pigments, (Francis 1987) food additives (Moshy 1985; Spears 1988) and natural preservatives (Tables 1–4) was understood early on.

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Endress, R. (1994). Introduction. In: Plant Cell Biotechnology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02996-1_1

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