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Transgenic Hyoscyamus muticus (Egyptian henbane)

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Transgenic Crops III

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 48))

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The results presented in this chapter are mostly based on our own work with Hyoscyamus muticus carried out during the years 1982–1998 in our laboratories in Finland and Italy.

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Sevón, N., Biondi, S., Bagni, N., Oksman-Caldentey, KM. (2001). Transgenic Hyoscyamus muticus (Egyptian henbane). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10603-7_13

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