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[Specific density of leaf as a characteristic of the photosynthetic apparatus]

I I Cheniad'ev1

  • 1Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 117071 Russia.

Prikladnaia Biokhimiia I Mikrobiologiia
|September 4, 2001
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