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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFF1003500), CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-078), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science (XDA24020306), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32170343). We are sorry that we could not cite all related papers due to page limit.
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Meng, JG., Li, SZ. & Li, HJ. Central cell: the key to determine persistent pollen tube attraction or termination. Sci. China Life Sci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-023-2534-2
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