Temperate corn - background, behavior, and breeding

Specialty Corns, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 377-450

  Troyer, Forrest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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