Levels and stability of expression of transgenes

Transgenic Crop Plants

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 145-186

  Bandopadhyay, Rajib ^a,b   Haque, Inamul ^a   Singh, Dharmendra ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Kunal ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04809-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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