The separation distances required to ensure cross-pollination is below specified limits in non-seed crops of sugar beet, maize and oilseed rape

Plant Varieties and Seeds

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-199

  Ingram, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

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