It is a bimonthly abstracting journal covering global current literature on all aspects of medicinal, aromatic and allied plants. It is produced by scanning, selecting and abstracting relevant papers from about 600 primary journals published from about 65 countries and in 25 languages, research reports, conference proceedings and patents. Each of the 700 or so abstracts selected for every issue contains names of author(s), their affiliation, title of the paper, bibliographical details, article language, number of references and an informative abstract. Each issue and volume of MAPA is supported by a keyword index. From 1988 onwards, MAPA is available on CD-ROM also.

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