Progress and challenges for the deployment of transgenic technologies in cassava

AgBioForum

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 51-56

  Taylor, Nigel ^a   Kent, Lawrence ^a   Fauquet, Claude ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassava; Field trial; Intellectual property; Product development; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

MANIHOT; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 8744243227     PISSN: 1522936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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