Biotechnology and the environment: Challenges and opportunities

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 609-614

  Vickers, Kathleen M ^a   Lemaux, Peggy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0031901180     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.33.4.609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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