Virulence genes in risk assessment of beneficial microorganisms: What do genome sequences tell us?

Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Safety Assessment and Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 180-196

  Wassenaar, Trudy M ^a   Alter, Thomas ^b  

^a Molec Microbiol/Genom Consultants   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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