Guiding strategies for breeding vegetable cultivars
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Guiding strategies for breeding vegetable cultivars
Vegetables are considered essential for wellbalanced diets. The production and marketing of vegetables crops are undergoing continuous change globally. This is mainly due to the growing demands of consumers for safe and healthy vegetables, increased urbanisation of societies, and the growth in scale and influence of supermarkets chains. Horticultural science can respond to many of these challen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2156-8553,2156-8561
DOI: 10.4236/as.2014.51002