Assessing the Ecological Fitness of Recipients

Gene Flow from GM Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 143-168

  Weis, Arthur E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GM crops; Hybrid zones; Hybridisation; Introgression; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889630805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988497.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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