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Showdown for Europe

Nature volume 450, pages 928–929 (2007)Cite this article

The European Union is set to make a landmark decision on genetically modified crops, as Alison Abbott and Quirin Schiermeier report.

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Abbott, A., Schiermeier, Q. Showdown for Europe. Nature 450, 928–929 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450928a

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