A comparison between crop domestication, classical plant breeding, and genetic engineering

Crop Science

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1780-1790

  Gepts, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2002.1780     Document Type: Review

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