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CÁNovas, F.M., Gallardo, F., Jing, Z.P., Pascual, M.B. (2006). Transgenic Approaches to Engineer Nitrogen Metabolism. In: Fladung, M., Ewald, D. (eds) Tree Transgenesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32199-3_8

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