Winter hardiness and the CBF genes in the Triticeae

Plant Cold Hardiness: From the Laboratory to the Field

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 119-130

  Stockinger, Eric J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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