Nutritional evaluation of 24 Iranian Punica granatum genotypes

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Sara Yari ¹ , Seyed Abbas Mirjalili ² , Seyed Amir Mousavi ³ , Elahe Poorazizi ⁴

1 - Department of Horticulture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Plant Production, Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, Iran
3 - National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Biochemistry, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2021-10-15 Accepted : 2022-03-02 Published : 2022-03-01

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