Exotic pines and eucalypts: Perspectives on risks of transgenic plantations

The Bioengineered Forest: Challenges for Science and Society

Volumn 9781936331352, Issue , 2004, Pages 52-75

  Burdon, Rowland D ^a   Walter, Christian ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

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EID: 58249105451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331352     Document Type: Chapter

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