Screening the cucumber germplasm collection for fruit yield and quality

Crop Science

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2174-2183

  Shetty, Nischit V ^a   Wehner, Todd C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 0036888819     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2002.2174     Document Type: Article

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