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THE GROWTH OF CUCUMIS MELO SEEDLINGS AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES
R Pearl1, T I Edwards, J R Miner
1Department of Biology of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
The Journal of General Physiology
|October 30, 2009
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