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A Spiteri1, O M Viratelle, P Raymond

  • 1Station de Physiologie Végétale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherches de Bordeaux, B. P. 131, 33140 Pont de la Maye, France.

Plant Physiology
|October 1, 1989
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