February
2015
, Volume
99
, Number
2
Pages
219
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224
Authors
Geng Sun, College of Plant Sciences, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun 130062, China, and State Key Laboratory of the Discovery and Development of Novel Pesticide, Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Shenyang 110021, China;
Jinliang Liu,
Guihua Li,
Xianghui Zhang,
Tingting Chen, and
Jingyuan Chen, College of Plant Sciences, Jilin University;
Hao Zhang, College of Resource and Environment, Jilin Agricultural University;
Dongping Wang, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544;
Fengjie Sun, School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30043; and
Hongyu Pan, College of Plant Sciences, Jilin University
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