The genetics of flower color

Petunia: Evolutionary, Developmental and Physiological Genetics (Second Edition)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-299

  Tornielli, Giambattista ^a   Koes, Ronald ^b   Quattrocchio, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-84796-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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