Engineering stress tolerance in maize

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-124

  Van Breusegem, Frank ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Inzé, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0007678685     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003072709802700209     Document Type: Article

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