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The efficacy of RNAi in the study of the plant cytoskeleton

V P Klink1, S M Wolniak

  • 1Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.

Journal of Plant Growth Regulation
|January 5, 2002
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