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Supported by the National Program of Research and Development of Transgenic Plants of China (JY03A2001) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30570138 and 30370127).The authors thank Professors Kang Chong and Zheng Meng of the Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, for kindly providing the vectors of pTCK303 and pKZMM1.
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