We thank Prof Shouyi Chen (Institute of Genetics and Devel- opmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science) for providing the plasmids GAL4BD, 35sLUC and pRTL, Prof Qian Qian and Dr Xingming Hu (State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China Na- tional Rice Research Institute) for providing the rice miRNA156 overexpressing lines, Prof Chuanyou Li for sharing the Plant Imaging System (Berthold Technologies), and lab members (Drs Lei Wang, Liang Jiang, Xue Liu, Huihui Liu) for their technical assistance, and Dr Bing Wang for comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to the Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility of State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology for phosphor imaging. This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Devel- opment Program of China (Grant 2016YFD0101800), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 91635301), and the Strategic Priority Research Program "Molecular Mechanism of Plant Growth and Development" (Grant XDPB0401).
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