An overview to the present status of biopesticides in Egypt

Cover Crops and Crop Yields

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 175-203

  Mansour, Sameeh A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

AGERI; Biopesticides; Egypt; GM crops

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EID: 70350617213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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