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Benson, E.E., Johnston, J., Muthusamy, J., Harding, K. (2008). Physical And Engineering Perspectives Of In Vitro Plant Cryopreservation. 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_24

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