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Contamination in seed crops
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Contamination in seed crops

III. Relation with isolation distance

  • A J Bateman1 

Heredity volume 1, pages 303–336 (1947)Cite this article

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Bateman, A. Contamination in seed crops. Heredity 1, 303–336 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1947.20

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