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Hua Qin1, Philip C Brookes, Jianming Xu

  • 1College of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Subtropical Soil and Plant Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; School of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an 311300, China.

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BiodegradationCongener profileCucurbitPhospholipid fatty acidsRedundancy analysis

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