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Songtao Wang1,2, Xianglong Zhu1,2, Huijie Xie3

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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Penicillium citrinumbiosynthesischitinase inhibitorspesticidespyrroline-derived alkaloids

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