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An Addiction to Seeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2007

Daphne J. Osborne
Daphne J. Osborne*
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Oxford Research Unit, The Open University, Foxcombe Hall, Boars Hill, Oxford OX1 5HR, UK
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Research Article
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Seed Science Research , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2000, pp. 3 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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