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Silicon-Mediated Pathogen Resistance in Plants

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The study is financially supported by grants from the National Key Basic Research Funds of China (2011CB100400), Natural Science Foundation of China (31070396), and Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (20094404110007).

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  1. Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Road, 510642, Guangzhou, China

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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  3. Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

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Cai, K. (2013). Silicon-Mediated Pathogen Resistance in Plants. In: Kretsinger, R.H., Uversky, V.N., Permyakov, E.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metalloproteins. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1533-6_454

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