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Written for the introductorylevel course in economic botany,this edition offers more emphasis on key topics like. Economic botany with molly connerogorzaly which was first published in 1986 and has been reissued in its fourth edition in 2014. The history of economic botany is briefly discussed. Kochhars economic botany in the tropics first appeared in 1981, there was practically a vacuum in the text book space in this important field. Economic botany intersects many fields including established disciplines such as agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry, economics, ethnobotany, ethnology, forestry, genetic resources, geography, geology, horticulture, medicine, microbiology, nutrition.
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