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The “Bioactive Agents from Dryland Biodiversity of Latin America” begun in 1993 with funding from the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) program which is jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Timmermann, B.N. (2001). Biodiversity Prospecting in Drylands of Latin America. In: Pasternak, D., Schlissel, A. (eds) Combating Desertification with Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1327-8_10
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