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Published in Biotechnology (N Y) on January 01, 1995

Authors

J L Ramos1, P Andersson, L B Jensen, C Ramos, M C Ronchel, E Díaz, K N Timmis, S Molin

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1: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, DOT Group, CSIC, Granada, Spain. jlramos@samba.cnb.uam.es

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