Tissue culture for farmers: Participatory adaptation of low-input cassava propagation in Colombia

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-120

  Escobar, R H ^a   Hernandez C M ^b   Larrahondo, N ^b   Ospina, G ^c   Restrepo, J ^c   Munoz L ^a   Tohme, J ^a   Roca, W M ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b Department of Cauca   (Colombia)

^c SQUALUS   (Colombia)

^d INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

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MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 31044434896     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001447970500311X     Document Type: Article

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