Vegetable soybean

The Soybean: Botany, Production and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 427-460

  Shanmugasundaram, S ^a   Yan, Miao Rong ^a  

^a AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

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