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Cibus' herbicide-resistant canola in European limbo

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Figure 1: The ODM technique can be applied to plants grown in vitro.

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Fladung, M. Cibus' herbicide-resistant canola in European limbo. Nat Biotechnol 34, 473–474 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3558

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