Enhancing freedom to operate for plant breeders and farmers through open source plant breeding

Crop Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2481-2488

  Luby, Claire H ^a   Kloppenburg, Jack ^a   Michaels, Thomas E ^b   Goldman, Irwin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 84944474419     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2014.10.0708     Document Type: Article

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