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Learning from seeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2007

A. Carl Leopold
A. Carl Leopold
Affiliation:
Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Seed Science Research , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 1999 , pp. 111 - 116
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