Genetic engineering of grapevine and progress toward commercial deployment

Transgenic Horticultural Crops: Challenges and Opportunities

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 317-332

  Gray, Dennis J ^a   Dhekney, Sadanand A ^a   Li, Zhijian T ^a   Cordts, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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