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Automated Plant Tissue Culture for Mass Propagation

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  1. Plant Biotech Industries Ltd., Mobile Post, Ashrat, 25201, Israel

    Robert Levin, Victor Gaba, Beni Tal, Stanley Hirsch, David DeNola & Indra K. Vasil

  2. Department of Vegetable Crops, University of Florida, 511 Bartram Hall West, Gainesville, FL, 32611

    Robert Levin, Victor Gaba, Beni Tal, Stanley Hirsch, David DeNola & Indra K. Vasil

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Levin, R., Gaba, V., Tal, B. et al. Automated Plant Tissue Culture for Mass Propagation. Nat Biotechnol 6, 1035–1040 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0988-1035

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