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All issues Volume 71 / No 2 (March-April 2016) Fruits, 71 2 (2016) 87-92 References
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Fruits
Volume 71, Number 2, March-April 2016
Page(s) 87 - 92
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/fruits/2015051
Published online 07 January 2016
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