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Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms

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  1. CIMMYT, P.O. Box 25171, Nairobi, Kenya

    Fred Kanampiu & Dennis Friesen

  2. CIMMYT, P.O. Box 5186, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Joel Ransom

  3. Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

    Jonathan Gressel

  4. CIMMYT, Mount Pleasant, P.O. Box 163, Harare, Zimbabwe

    David Jewell

  5. IFDC, P.O. Box 2040, Muscle Shoals, AL, 35662, USA

    Dennis Friesen

  6. CIMMYT, Apdo Postal 6-641, Col. Juárez, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc, CP 06600, México, D.F., México

    Daniel Grimanelli & David Hoisington

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Kanampiu, F., Ransom, J., Gressel, J. et al. Appropriateness of biotechnology to African agriculture: Striga and maize as paradigms. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 69, 105–110 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015241509808

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