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Traditional medicines and medicinal plants, and their protection modalities from an Intellectual Property Rights perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2007

M.D. Nair
M.D. Nair*
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A-11, Sagarika, 15, 3rd Seaward Road, Valmiki Nagar, Chennai, 600041, India
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*Corresponding author: E-mail: [email protected]
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Plant Genetic Resources , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 314 - 319
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Copyright © NIAB 2005

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