The effect of temperature on Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated gene transfer to plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1459-1463

  Dillen, Willy ^a   De Clercq, Janniek ^a   Kapila, Jyoti ^a   Zambre, Mukund ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Angenon, Geert ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0031451855     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1997.12061459.x     Document Type: Article

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