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Economie botany—A modern concept of its scope

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No longer limited to descriptions of economically important plants and to accounts of their culture, products, preparation, occurrence, distribution and uses, the scope of Economic Botany today must include careful taxonomic work, the application of physiological principIes, recognition of ecological relationships and the science of genetics.

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  1. U. S. Department of Agriculture, USA

    F. Raymond Fosberg

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This paper is the introduction to a projected text-book on economie botany.

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Fosberg, F.R. Economie botany—A modern concept of its scope . Econ Bot 2, 3–14 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02907915

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