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Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon of the Neglected and Underutilized Crop Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.)

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Acknowledgments

Pamela Montero and Cesar Cachique are thanked for their kind assistance during the fieldwork, Stéphane Bertani and David Parker Jr. for fruitful and critical discussions, and Dalia Ortega from Agro-Industrias Horizonte Verde for providing support for realization of the surveys.

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  1. Laboratorio de Botánica Aplicada Jean-Christophe Pintaud, Programa de Investigación en Biodiversidad Amazónica (PIBA), Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Jirón Belén Torres de Tello, Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru

    Ángel Martín Rodríguez del-Castillo & María de Fátima Sánchez-Márquez

  2. Instituto de Medicina Tradicional, Seguro Social de Salud, Pasaje San Lorenzo 205, San Juan Bautista, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru

    German Gonzalez-Aspajo

  3. Universidad Peruana del Oriente, Avenida Abelardo Quiñones 2725, San Juan Bautista, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru

    German Gonzalez-Aspajo

  4. Dirección Regional de Agricultura, Gobierno Regional de San Martín, Jirón Angel Delgado Morey 435, Tarapoto, San Martín, Peru

    María de Fátima Sánchez-Márquez

  5. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Nete Kodahl

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del-Castillo, Á.M.R., Gonzalez-Aspajo, G., de Fátima Sánchez-Márquez, M. et al. Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Peruvian Amazon of the Neglected and Underutilized Crop Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.). Econ Bot 73, 281–287 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-019-09459-y

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