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Lignin Down-regulation of Zea mays via dsRNAi and Klason Lignin Analysis
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Correction: Qi et al. Melatonin Alleviates High Temperature-Induced Pollen Abortion in Solanum lycopersicum.
Zhen-Yu Qi1,2, Kai-Xin Wang1, Meng-Yu Yan1
1Department of Horticulture/Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Integrative Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 10, 2024
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