Environmental Biotechnology: Current Advances, New Knowledge Gaps, and Emerging Issues
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1Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt 2School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley TS1 3BA, UK 3Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2871, Beijing 100085, China 4Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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دوره 2015 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015