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All issues Volume 70 / No 3 (May-June 2015) Fruits, 70 3 (2015) 127-134 References
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Fruits
Volume 70, Number 3, May-June 2015
Page(s) 127 - 134
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/fruits/2015007
Published online 22 April 2015
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