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The substance of this article was included in papers presented at the A.I.B.S. Symposium on “The Application of Atomic Energy to Problems in Agriculture”, August, 1956; the Rutgers Nuclear Science Symposium, October, 1956; and the Oak Ridge Regional Symposium on “Radiation in Plant Breeding”, January, 1957. Research conducted under the auspices of the U. S. AEC.

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Smith, H.H. Radiation in the production of useful mutations. Bot. Rev 24, 1–24 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02872515

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