The oncogenes of agrobacterium tumefaciens and agrobacterium rhizogenes

Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 523-563

  Britton, Monica T ^a   Escobar, Matthew A ^b   Dandekar, Abhaya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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