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WUSCHEL: the versatile protein in the shoot apical meristem

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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31630007), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB27030103), the Key Research Program of CAS (QYZDB-SSW-SMC010), and National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics.

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Xu, L. WUSCHEL: the versatile protein in the shoot apical meristem. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 177–178 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1870-4

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