Breeding date palm

Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-216

  Hadrami, Ismail El ^a   Hadrami, Abdelbasset El ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71201-7_6     Document Type: Chapter

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