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Carrer, H., Staub, J.M. & Maliga, P. Gentamycin resistance in Nicotiana conferred by AAC(3)-I, a narrow substrate specificity acetyltransferase. Plant Mol Biol 17, 301–303 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00039510
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