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The role of barley among the shuhi in the Tibetan Cultural Area of the Eastern Himalayas.

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  1. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Kunming Institute of Botany, Heilongtan, 650204, Kunming, China

    Caroline S. Weckerle

  2. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, 650204, Kunming, China

    Franz K. Huber, Yang Yongping & Sun Weibang

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Weckerle, C.S., Huber, F.K., Yongping, Y. et al. The role of barley among the shuhi in the Tibetan Cultural Area of the Eastern Himalayas.. Econ Bot 59, 386–390 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0386:NOEP]2.0.CO;2

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