Transgenesis

Tall Fescue for the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 395-406

  Wang, Z Y ^a   Hopkins, A A ^a   Saha, M C ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Agronomic performance; Cultivar development; Transformation method; Transgenic plants; Transgenic tall fescue; Value added traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872189935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr53.c22     Document Type: Chapter

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