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W H Shen1, A Petit, J Guern

  • 1Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, avenue de la Terrasse, 91190 Gif sur Yvette, France.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|May 1, 1988
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