A status review on the medicinal properties of essential oils

Industrial Crops and Products - Tập 62 - Trang 250-264 - 2014
Jayant S. Raut1, Sankunny Mohan Karuppayil1
1DST-FIST and UGC-SAP Sponsored School of Life Sciences, SRTM University, Nanded 431-606, MS, India.

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