Agroecology and crop adaptation

The Lentil: Botany, Production and uses

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-63

  Materne, M ^a   Siddique, K H M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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