Chimeras: Properties and dissociation in vegetatively propagated plants

Plant Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 191-201

  Geier, T ^a  

^a Forschungsanstalt Geisenheim   (Germany)

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