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Arabidopsis 2010 and beyond-big science with a small weed
Klaus Harter1, Andreas P M Weber
1Department of Plant Physiology, Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany.
Frontiers in Plant Science
|February 15, 2013
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