A brief history of research on agrobacterium tumefaciens: 1900-1980s

Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-72

  Binns, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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