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SPATIAL ISOLATION OF SEED CROPS

Nature volume 152, pages 591–592 (1943)Cite this article

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THE sudden increase in the acreage of seed crops in Great Britain has brought with it a number of problems. One of the major problems confronting the seed grower is that of reducing to a minimum the amount of contamination of one crop by pollen from an adjacent one.

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HASKELL, G. SPATIAL ISOLATION OF SEED CROPS. Nature 152, 591–592 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152591a0

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