Wu, Ying
Ma, Xianfeng
Pan, Zhiyong
Kale, Shiv D.
Song, Yi
King, Harlan
Zhang, Qiong
Presley, Christian
Deng, Xiuxin
Wei, Cheng-I
Xiao, Shunyuan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1348-4879
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (IOS-1457033)
Institute for bioscience and biotechnology research (2955660)
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (2955310)
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (2956830)
College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, University of Maryland College Park
Article History
Received: 15 December 2017
Accepted: 11 September 2018
First Online: 25 September 2018
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