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Lost in the woods

Nature Biotechnology volume 23, pages 532–533 (2005)Cite this article

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In “Struggling to see the forest through the trees” (Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 165–167, 2005), Herrera cites many of the important issues surrounding the state of forest biotechnology, yet at the same time fails to give an accurate impression of the extremely difficult state of the industry worldwide.

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  1. Forest Science Faculty, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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  2. Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 97331-5752, OR, USA

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