Ex situ biodiversity conservation by seed storage: Multiple-criteria keys to estimate seed storage behaviour

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 157-161

  Hong, T D ^a   Ellis, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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