Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Trends in Plant Science

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Philosophy, Environmental Science, Medicine, Education

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  DOI 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.03.011PMID 25868652
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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