Mango malformation: Etiology and preventive measures

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-61

  Bains, Gurdeep ^a   Pant, R C ^a  

^a G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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