Expanding the club: Engineering plants to talk to bacteria

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 89-91

  Pierson III, Leland S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034163404     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(00)01555-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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