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Commercialized transgenic traits, maize productivity and yield risk

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This work was support in part by a US Department of Agriculture Hatch grant and a US Department of Agriculture AFRI grant.

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    Guanming Shi & Jean-Paul Chavas

  2. Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Shi, G., Chavas, JP. & Lauer, J. Commercialized transgenic traits, maize productivity and yield risk. Nat Biotechnol 31, 111–114 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2496

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