CROPS AND SOILS RESEARCH PAPER Release of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [l.] Lam.) cultivars in Mozambique through an accelerated breeding scheme
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M. I. ANDRADE*, J. RICARDO, A. NAICO, A. ALVARO, G. S. MAKUNDE, J. LOW, R. ORTIZ AND W. J. GRÜNEBERG 1 International Potato Center, IIAM Av. FPLM 2698, Maputo, Mozambique 2 Instituto de Investigação Agraria de Mozambique Av. FPLM 2698, Maputo, Mozambique 3 International Potato Center, IIAM, Gurúè, Mozambique CIP, ILRI Campus, Utiru, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sundsvagen 14 Box 101, SE 23053 Alnarp, Sweden 6 International Potato Center, Lima, Perú
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