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Blooming biotech

Recombinant technology has not yet taken root in ornamental plant breeding, but if some early genetically modified products succeed in the marketplace, might this change?

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Potera, C. Blooming biotech. Nat Biotechnol 25, 963–965 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0907-963

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