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Key to determine cultivars of three species of cucurbita

An analytic key was done based upon morphological characteristics of fruits and seeds of 13 cultivars belonging to 3 species to identify them. It was used seeds from controlled pollination. Is was considered: fruit-shape, epicarp color, peduncle dilatation and consistence, seed-hilum and longitudinal lineal salience.


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