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Engineering thermotolerant plants: a solution to protecting crop production threatened by global warming

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Wan, J. Engineering thermotolerant plants: a solution to protecting crop production threatened by global warming. Sci. Bull. 60, 1366–1367 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-015-0843-7

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