Less is better: New approaches for seedless fruit production

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 233-242

  Varoquaux, Fabrice ^a   Blanvillain, Robert ^a   Delseny, Michel ^a   Gallois, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; CITRUS FRUIT; CUCUMBER; FRUIT; GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAPE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 0034212194     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7799(00)01448-7     Document Type: Note

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