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Engineering Forest Trees with Heavy Metal Resistance Genes

By: Scott A. Merkle  
Open Access
|Oct 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sg-2006-0034 | Journal eISSN: 2509-8934 | Journal ISSN: 0037-5349
Language: English
Page range: 263 - 268
Submitted on: Aug 21, 2006
Accepted on: Oct 21, 2006
Published on: Oct 19, 2017
Published by: Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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