Destruction of public and governmental experiments of GMO in Europe

Marcel Kuntz1

  • 1Laboratory Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale (CEA/CNRS/INRA/Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), Grenoble, France. kuntz@ujf-grenoble.fr

GM Crops & Food
|July 25, 2012
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