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Field research featured on Emory website

cquave August 6, 2018 August 6, 2018Plant News, Quave Research News

Check out this delightfully artistic coverage of our summer field research at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center: https://news.emory.edu/features/2018/08/plant-hunters/index.html

  biodiversity, bioprospecting, drug discovery, ethnobotany, human health, medicinal plants, research, wild food plants. Bookmark.
Summer Field Research
New review published: Opportunities for Plant Natural Products in Infection Control
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