Synthetic potato seeds offer the potential to improve the Kenyan seed system

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 141-148

  Nyende, Aggrey Bernard ^a   Schittenhelm, Siegfried ^a   Mix Wagner, Gunda ^a   Greef, Jörg Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kenya; Potato; Seed systems; Shoot tips; Synthetic seeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036754164     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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