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Deng-Di Li1, Xiang-Mei Ruan, Jie Zhang

  • 1Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetic Regulation and Integrative Biology, College of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.

The New Phytologist
|May 10, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
aquaporincoexpressioncotton (Gossypium hirsutum)fibre developmentprotein-protein interactionsuppression of gene expression

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