The first generation of biotechnology products commercialized were crops focusing largely on input agronomic traits whose value was often opaque to consumers. The coming generations of crop plants can be grouped into four broad areas each presenting what, on the surface, may appear as unique challen
Cropping for plant-based agriculture
β Scribed by Susan Thompson; Ernest Braun
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 434 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0306-9192
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