the Special Fund for the Public Interest (Agriculture)(Grant No. 200903052);the "113115" Sci-Tech Innovation Project of Shaanxi Province (No. 2007ZDKG-14 and No. 2009ZDKG-06), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101442);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2452015113 and No. 2452013QN044).
Cantharidin (CTD), a terpenoid defensive toxin mainly produced by blister beetles, is widely known by its toxicity to both cancer cells and pests. However, little information is known about its biosynthesis in blister...
We thank Dr. Jianming Chen (Zhejiang Academy of Agri- cultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China) for providing the susceptible population and Jiaxing field-collected pop- ulation, and Dr. Ping Wang (Cornell University, USA) for his critical comments on this manuscript. This work was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant 2010CB 126200), National Natural ScienceFoundation of China (U 1401212) and the China Postdoc- toral Science Foundation (2016M602582).
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