Crop-to-wild gene flow, introgression and possible fitness effects of transgenes

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Issue		Environ. Biosafety Res. Volume 2, Number 1, January-March 2003


Page(s)		9 - 24
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ebr:2003001
Published online		15 January 2003

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