New sources of resistance to gummy stem blight in watermelon

Crop Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 582-588

  Gusmini, Gabriele ^a   Song, Ronghao ^a   Wehner, Todd C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 14844362654     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.0582     Document Type: Article

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