Coping with ex-ante regulations for planting Bt maize: The portuguese experience

AgBioForum

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Skevas, Theodoros ^a   Wesseler, Justus ^a   Fevereiro, Pedro ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bt maize; Coexistence; Portugal

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350361093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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