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  1. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

    Rex L. Lowe

  2. Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

    Dennis Swanger & Larry A. Giesmann

  3. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

    Gregory J. Anderson

  4. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Bernard Lowy

  5. Plant Taxonomy Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Center, USA

    Charles R. Gunn & Shirley C. Tucker

  6. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

    Jere Brunken

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Lowe, R.L., R.E.S., Swanger, D. et al. Book review. Econ Bot 32, 1 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02906724

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