Genetic engineering and genomics

The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-105

  Abbott, Albert G ^a   Arús, Pere ^b   Scorza, Ralph ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

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