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Tuberosa, R., Salvi, S. (2004). QTLs and Genes for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals. In: Gupta, P.K., Varshney, R.K. (eds) Cereal Genomics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2359-6_9

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