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Our purpose is to form a picture of the databases and information services available to research and development botanists working on economic plants for arid lands. We need to examine the databases themselves, the means of access to these databases, and the extent to which they act as services giving information beyond that in the database.
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Bisby, F.A. (1985). Plant information services for economic plants of arid lands. In: Wickens, G.E., Goodin, J.R., Field, D.V. (eds) Plants for Arid Lands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6830-4_30
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