History and origin

Lentil: An Ancient Crop for Modern Times

Volumn 9781402063138, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-9

  Sandhu, J S ^a   Singh, Sarvjeet ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6313-8_1     Document Type: Chapter

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