Production of transgenic banana plants expressing antifungal proteins

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 490, Issue , 1998, Pages 433-436

  Remy, S ^a   Buyens, A ^a   Cammue, B P A ^a   Swennen, R ^a   Sagi, L ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

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FUSARIUM;

EID: 0004736294     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.490.44     Document Type: Article

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