Agrobacterium-taxonomy of plant-pathogenic rhizobium species

Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-220

  Young, John M ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

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