A Review of pollination and pod setting in faba beans (Vicia faba L.)

Plant Varieties and Seeds

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-35

  Crofton, G R A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

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