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Enhanced Soybean Infection by the Legume “Super-Virulent” Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strain KAT23

Kiyoshi YUKAWADepartment of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology;National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
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Hisatoshi KAKUNational Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
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Hiroshi TANAKANational Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
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Yasunori KOGA-BANNational Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
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Masao FUKUDADepartment of Bioengineering, Nagaoka University of Technology
Pages 1809-1816 | Received 05 Feb 2008, Accepted 08 Apr 2008, Published online: 22 May 2014

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