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A simple and efficient carbon nanotube-based nanocarriers simultaneously delivers multiple plasmids into diverse mature tissues of monocotyledonous crops

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFA0903900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070614, 31801078), Guangdong Innovation Research Team Fund (2014ZT05S078), and Guangdong Province Natural Sciences Fund Project (2020A1515011567). We thank Dr. Yule Liu of Tsinghua University for kindly sharing Fny-CMV clone, Dr. Xianbing Wang of China Agricultural University for sharing CMV CP antibody, Dr. Aiming Wang in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for providing the dRBFC plasmids. We thank Drs. Jiyuan Tao and Weigui Luo for discussions. We thank Instrument Analysis Center of Shenzhen University for the assistance with SEM and TEM analyses, and thank the Central Research Facilities of College of Life Sciences and Oceanography for the use of laser scanning confocal microscope (LSM710, ZEISS,Germany).

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Liu, X., Kong, W., Xiao, N. et al. A simple and efficient carbon nanotube-based nanocarriers simultaneously delivers multiple plasmids into diverse mature tissues of monocotyledonous crops. Sci. China Life Sci. 66, 1701–1704 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2266-0

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