Thanks to Marta Ramirez for technical support,Montse Matas(ADV Baix Maresme)for her support in pro-viding and managing the greenhouses used and Dr.Priscila Gomez-Polo for her suggestions.This study has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness(MINECO)(Projects AGL2008-00546,AGL2011-24349 and AGL2014-53970-C2-2-R).Funding acknowledgment also to the CERCA Pro-gramme/Generalitat de Catalunya.
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This research is supported by grants from the Special Fund for Agroscientific Research in the Public Interest (Nos. 201103012, 201103022, 201303024), National Ba- sic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB 127600), the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 6112013), the special Foundation for Scientific Research (No. 2012FY 111100) and the National Natural Science Foun- dation of China (Nos. 1061160186, 31111140015).
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