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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31800203), the Key Research and Development Program of Hainan (ZDYF2020061), the Hainan Major Science and Technology Project (ZDKJ202002), the Hainan Academician Innovation Platform (HD-YSZX-202003, HD-YSZX-202004), and the Hainan University Startup Fund (KYQD(ZR)20014, KYQD(ZR)1915, KYQD(ZR)1866, KYQD(ZR)1824).
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Jin, C., Fang, C., Zhang, Y. et al. Plant metabolism paves the way for breeding crops with high nutritional value and stable yield. Sci. China Life Sci. 64, 2202–2205 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-2004-0
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