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All issues Volume 64 / No 4 (July-August 2009) Fruits, 64 4 (2009) 197-206 References
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Fruits
Volume 64, Number 4, July-August 2009
Page(s) 197 - 206
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/fruits/2009015
Published online 02 September 2009
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