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Plant Tissue Culture Engineering

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    Yasuomi Ibaraki

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Sluis, C.J. (2008). Integrating Automation Technologies With Commercial Micropropagation. In: Gupta, S.D., Ibaraki, Y. (eds) Plant Tissue Culture Engineering. Focus on Biotechnology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3694-1_13

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