Forest tree biotechnology

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 298-302

  Merkle, Scott A ^a   Dean, Jeffrey FD ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOREST; GENE TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TREE;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0034034847     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(00)00099-9     Document Type: Review

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