Advancing environmental risk assessment for transgenic biofeedstock crops

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wolt, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73149097958     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-2-27     Document Type: Review

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