Early flowering and genetic containment studies in transgenic poplar

IForest

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 138-146

  Hoenicka, H ^a   Lehnhardt, D ^a   Polak, O ^a   Fladung, M ^a  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biosafety; Gene Technology; Hybrid aspen; Tree breeding

Indexed keywords

POPULUS;

EID: 84863970551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0621-005     Document Type: Article

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