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Cereals and Millets

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  1. Department of Botany and Horticulture, Maseno University, Private Bag, Maseno, Kenya

    Mathews M. Dida

  2. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    Katrien M. Devos

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  1. Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, 316 Tyson Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Chittaranjan Kole

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Dida, M.M., Devos, K.M. (2006). Finger Millet. In: Kole, C. (eds) Cereals and Millets. Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34389-9_10

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