Techniques for producing herbicide-resistant crops

Herbicide-Resistant Crops: Agricultural, Environmental, Economic, Regulatory, and Technical Aspects

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 37-51

  Dyer, William E ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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