Genetically modified food from crops: Progress, pawns, and possibilities

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 392, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-340

  Morin, Xenia K ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

GM CROPS; GM FOODS;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 51349167148     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-2313-4     Document Type: Article

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