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Amandine Lê Van1,2,3, Valérie Caffier1,2,3, Pauline Lasserre-Zuber1,2,3

  • 1INRA, UMR1345 Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences - IRHS, SFR 4207 QUASAV, PRES L'UNAM, 42 rue Georges Morel, F-49071, Beaucouzé Cedex, France.

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