Medium grains, high stakes: Economics of genetically modified rice in California

AgBioForum

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 146-154

  Bond, Craig A ^a   Carter, Colin A ^a   Farzin, Y Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Genetically modified; GM food crop; Herbicide tolerant (HT); Monte Carlo; Rice

Indexed keywords

EID: 13744252119     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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