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The war between wheat and Fusarum: fighting with an alien weapon

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The author thanks Prof. Jizeng Jia from the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, for the critical comments, and Dr. Xiaojian Fang from the China Agricultural University for help with drawing the illustration shown in Figure 1.

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  1. Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

    Chun-Ming Liu

  2. Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

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Liu, CM. The war between wheat and Fusarum: fighting with an alien weapon. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 1425–1427 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1724-y

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