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B Tuba Bicer1, Dogan Sakar

  • 1Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Dicle University - 21280, Diyarbakir, Turkey. tbicer@dicle.edu.tr

Journal of Environmental Biology
|March 11, 2011
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