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A WHY1-NADK3-PEX5 module confers drought tolerance by maintaining peroxisomal ROS homeostasis in Brassica napus

Jiaqi Yan1,2, Zhaoyang Qu2, Chao Wang2

  • 1College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.

The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology
|October 1, 2026
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