Nitrogen uptake and utilisation by bell pepper in subtropical australiaFootnote¹

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Footnote∗

This paper, which first appeared in Journal of Plant Nutrition, Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 177–193 (1993), was an unedited version of the same paper being published in this issue. The errors that occurred in the original version were the fault of the editor and not the authors. The editor apologizes to the authors as well as to the readers of this journal for this error in production.

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