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Acknowledgements

We thank Mike Mason for discussion and the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture (NRICGP), and the Department of Energy for research support. We apologize to those colleagues whose work could not be cited because of the brevity of this Progress Report.

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    Naomi Etheridge, Brenda Parson Hall & G Eric Schaller

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Etheridge, N., Hall, B.P. & Schaller, G.E. Progress report: ethylene signaling and responses. Planta 223, 387–391 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-005-0163-2

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