Funding for this research was provided by:
Academia Sinica (AS-103-SS-A03, AS-106-SS-A03, AS-106-SS-A03, AS-106-SS-A03, AS-103-SS-A03, AS-106-SS-A03)
Article History
Received: 22 September 2019
Accepted: 22 July 2020
First Online: 31 August 2020
Competing interests
: For the new strategy described in this manuscript, a United States patent (patent application number: US 9,228,196 B2) entitled “Method for changing nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants” was issued to the inventors Y.-F.T., S.-C. Fan, H.-Y.C. and K.-E.C. on 5 January 2016. In addition, a Taiwan (ROC) patent with the same title was issued to the inventors Y.-F.T., S.-C. Fan and H.-Y.C. on 11 December 2013.