History of cultivation and trends in China

The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 37-60

  Huang, Hongwen ^a,b   Cheng, Zhongping ^a   Zhang, Zhonghui ^a   Wang, Ying ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

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