Plant genetic engineering for biofuel production: towards affordable cellulosic ethanol

The author retracted this invited Nature Reviews Genetics article due to a paragraph being paraphrased without attribution. The paragraph in question was from an early version of an article to which I had access as a peer reviewer and which has since been published in Plant Science.

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