Heritability of carbon isotope discrimination and correlations with harvest index in cowpea

Crop Science

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-238

  Menéndez, Cristina M ^a   Hall, Anthony E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000094157     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1996.0011183X003600020003x     Document Type: Article

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