Engineering crops, a deserving venture

Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-54

  Lanfranco, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Environmental impact; Functional genomics; Transformation; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0038377121     PISSN: 22822593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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