Ten lessons from 15 years of transgenic Populus research

Forestry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 455-465

  Strauss, Steven H ^a   Brunner, Amy M ^a   Busov, Victor B ^a,b   Ma, Caiping ^a   Meilan, Richard ^a,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

POPULUS; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS;

EID: 10344262104     PISSN: 0015752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestry/77.5.455     Document Type: Article

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