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Xiangwei Meng1, Zhenchuan Mao, Guohua Chen

  • 1Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. xiaowei031@163.com

Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao = Acta Microbiologica Sinica
|October 20, 2009
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