Cultivars and plant improvement

Litchi and Longan: Botany, Production, and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-86

  Menzel, Christopher M ^a   Huang, Xuming ^b   Liu, Chengming ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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