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Bohan Liu1, Junyu Wu1, Shuaiqi Yang1

  • 1Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

Journal of Experimental Botany
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Keywords:
Lateral rootlocal signalinglong-distance communicationnitrate signalingroot foragingroot hairsystemic signaling

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