Viability Loss of Recalcitrant Brant’s Oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) Acorns during Overwintering
Subject Areas : Ecology
1 - Department of Forest Science, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University,
Shahrekord, Iran P.O.Box: 115
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