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A novel and powerful approach for designing future crops—target editing promoter overcomes tradeoffs caused by gene pleiotropy

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China

    Qingqing Hou, Jing Wang & Xuewei Chen

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Hou, Q., Wang, J. & Chen, X. A novel and powerful approach for designing future crops—target editing promoter overcomes tradeoffs caused by gene pleiotropy. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 2128–2130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2129-1

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