Crops resistant to oxynils: From the laboratory to the market

Field Crops Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 125-133

  Freyssinet, Georges ^a   Pelissier, Bernard ^a   Freyssinet, Martine ^a   Delon, René ^b  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b Seita   (France)

Author keywords

Commercialisation; Field performance; Herbicide; Oxynil herbicides; Resistance; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000850753     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4290(95)00065-8     Document Type: Article

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