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. 1999 Oct;11(10):1817–1826. doi: 10.1105/tpc.11.10.1817

A Weed Reaches New Heights Down Under

A Chaudhury, K Okada, N V Raikhel, K Shinozaki, V Sundaresan
PMCID: PMC1464678  PMID: 10521514

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