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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872933 and 31272055) and the National Transgenic Science and Technology Program (2019ZX08010-003). Dr. Linlu Qi helped with detection of mikimopine. Professor Jianqiang Wu at Chinese Academy of Sciences kindly provided C. australis seeds. Professor James Westwood at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University kindly shared RNAseq data.
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Zhang, Y., Wang, D., Wang, Y. et al. Parasitic plant dodder (Cuscuta spp.): A new natural Agrobacterium-to-plant horizontal gene transfer species. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 312–316 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-1588-x
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