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Mile-a-Minute (Polygonum perfoliatum): An Increasingly Problematic Invasive Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Virender Kumar  and
Antonio DiTommaso
Virender Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Horticulture
Antonio DiTommaso*
Affiliation:
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: ad97@cornell.edu
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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 1071 - 1077
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