Wu, Ying
Ma, Xianfeng
Pan, Zhiyong
Kale, Shiv D.
Song, Yi
King, Harlan
Zhang, Qiong
Presley, Christian
Deng, Xiuxin
Wei, Cheng-I
Xiao, Shunyuan http://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, 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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