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Composition of the Essential Oil of Agropyrum repens Rhizome1

R Boesel1, H Schilcher

  • 1Institut für Pharmakognosie und Phytochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 2 + 4, D-1000 Berlin 33 (West).

Planta Medica
|August 1, 1989
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