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P W Schenk1, T Nebl, P R Fisher

  • 1Section of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 RA, The Netherlands.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|July 15, 1999
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