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  1. Facultad de Agronomía, Cátedra de Cerealicultura, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Emilio Horacio Satorre & Gustavo Angel Maddonni

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    Emilio Horacio Satorre

  3. IFEVA, Facultad de Agronomia, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Emilio Horacio Satorre

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Satorre, E.H., Maddonni, G.A. (2019). Spatial Crop Structure in Agricultural Systems. In: Savin, R., Slafer, G. (eds) Crop Science. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8621-7_223

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