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  1. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 85743, Tuscon, AZ

    Daniel F. Austin

  2. University of Gent, Coupure Links 653, B 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Patrick Van Damme

  3. Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

    Deborah J. Clifton

  4. Stephen F. Austin State University, 75964, Nacogdoches, Tx

    Karol Chandler-Ezell

  5. Ferris State University, 49307, Big Rapids, MI

    Robert J. Krueger

  6. University of Maryland, PSC 76, Box 3215, 96319, APO, AP

    John Klock

  7. University of Florida, 32615-7305, Gainesville, FL

    John Richard Stepp

  8. Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

    Laura S. Meitzner Yoder

  9. Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

    Kevin Janni

  10. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 96822-1180, Honolulu, HI

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  11. William L. Brown Center for Plant Genetic Diversity Missouri Botanical Garden, Darrell Posey Ethnobotany Fellow at University of Oxford, UK

    Jan Salick

  12. Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

    Charles R. Clement

  13. Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Sq., WCiN iAX, London

    Peter Giovannini

  14. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 54901, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA

    Neil A. Harriman

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Austin, D.F., Van Damme, P., Clifton, D.J. et al. Book review. Econ Bot 60, 296–306 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2006)60[296a:PROTAD]2.0.CO;2

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