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Studies with sweet corn III

The primary effects of treating seeds with ultrasonics

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  1. John Innes Horticultural Institution, Bayfordbury, Hertford, Herts

    G. Haskell

  2. Wheatstone Physics Laboratory and Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit, King's College, London

    G. G. Selman

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Haskell, G., Selman, G.G. Studies with sweet corn III. Plant Soil 2, 359–373 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01343356

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