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A Telemetric, Gravimetric Platform for Real-Time Physiological Phenotyping of Plant–Environment Interactions
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Fine-tuning the spatial allocation of phytohormones for smart canopy, smart breeding, and smart agriculture
1National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Science China. Life Sciences
|October 2, 2024
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