News 2013 April

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Wiersema, John H. & León, Blanca 2013. World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference, Second Edition. CRC Press. 1336 p.

The book covers more than 12 000 vascular plants and plant products that are traded, regulated, or otherwise important to international commerce.

It contains more than 50 000 common names in all principal world languages. For languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian, names in original scripts are displayed (which is not the case in GRIN, but available in ISTA).

Data was extracted mostly from GRIN.

The book can be purchased through CRC at £95.00.

Michel Chauvet
15 April 2013