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Oil Crops pp 397–421Cite as

Olive

Part of the Handbook of Plant Breeding book series (HBPB,volume 4)

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  • Somatic Embryo
  • Somatic Embryogenesis
  • Olive Tree
  • Clonal Selection
  • Olive Fruit

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Baldoni, L., Belaj, A. (2009). Olive. In: Vollmann, J., Rajcan, I. (eds) Oil Crops. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77594-4_13

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