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Full Chloroplast Genome Assembly of 11 Diverse Watermelon Accessions
Chao Shi1, Shuo Wang2, Fei Zhao1
1Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesKunming, China.
Frontiers in Genetics
|May 2, 2017
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