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Unilateral interspecific incompatibility in flowering plants
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Unilateral interspecific incompatibility in flowering plants

  • D Lewis1 nAff2 &
  • Leslie K Crowe1 nAff3 

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    Present address: Department of Botany, University College London,

  2. Leslie K Crowe

    Present address: Department of Botany, University of Oxford,

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Lewis, D., Crowe, L. Unilateral interspecific incompatibility in flowering plants. Heredity 12, 233–256 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1958.26

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