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. 1997 Jul;9(7):1169–1179. doi: 10.1105/tpc.9.7.1169

Last exit: senescence, abscission, and meristem arrest in Arabidopsis.

A B Bleecker 1, S E Patterson 1
PMCID: PMC156989  PMID: 9254934

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