Impact of production risk on the selection of peach rootstocks

Fruit Varieties Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-46

  Harper, Jayson K ^a   Greene II, George M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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