The Agrobacterium DNA Transfer Complex

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-295

  Zupan, John ^a   Zambryski, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0000428257     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689709701951     Document Type: Article

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