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Transgenic Temperate Fruit Tree Rootstocks

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Dolgov, S.V., Hanke, Mv. (2006). Transgenic Temperate Fruit Tree Rootstocks. In: Fladung, M., Ewald, D. (eds) Tree Transgenesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32199-3_16

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