Biotechnological strategies for engineering plants with durable resistance to fungal and bacterial pathogens

Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 329-342

  Salomon, Dor ^a   Sessa, Guido ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84883958731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-381466-1.00021-3     Document Type: Chapter

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