Natural and tissue culture-generated variation in the salt marsh grass Sporobolus virginicus: Potential selections for marsh creation and restoration

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 622-625

  Seliskar, Denise M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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SPOROBOLUS VIRGINICUS;

EID: 0031947018     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.33.4.622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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