The contribution of sucrose to total sugar content in melons

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 510, Issue , 2000, Pages 479-485

  Burger, Yosef ^a   Shen, Shmuel ^a   Petreikov, Marina ^a   Schaffer, Arthur A ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cucumis melo; Sucrose metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879588070     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2000.510.75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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