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A Strategy to Validate the Role of Callose-mediated Plasmodesmal Gating in the Tropic Response
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Correction to: Molecular mechanisms mediating root hydrotropism: what we have observed since the rediscovery of
Yutaka Miyazawa1, Hideyuki Takahashi2
1Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata, 990-8560, Japan. miyazawa@sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp.
Journal of Plant Research
|March 27, 2020
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The article Molecular mechanisms mediating root hydrotropism.
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