Selected Varieties of Dioscorea esculenta, a Yam for the Hot, Humid Tropics.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico
سال: 1969
ISSN: 2308-1759,0041-994X
DOI: 10.46429/jaupr.v63i2.10281