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- This work was conducted as part of the Research Project No. 520902/94–7, supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil.
- Graduate student. Present address: Dept. Agronomia, UFRPE, Recife, PE.
- CNPq Fellow. Corresponding author (e‐mail address: [email protected]).