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Iyer-Pascuzzi, A.S., Sweeney, M.T., Sarla, N., McCouch, S.R. (2007). Use of Naturally Occurring Alleles for Crop Improvement. In: Rice Functional Genomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-48914-2_7

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