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The phase separation of SGS3 regulates antiviral immunity and fertility in Arabidopsis

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFD1400800 and 2021YFA1300400), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32250001). We thank Professor Shou-Wei Ding for providing CMV-Δ2b. We also thank Jing Li at the Imaging Core Facility at Tsinghua University for technical assistance.

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  1. MOE Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Yujie Han, Xiaolin Zhang, Xiaoyi Shan & Daoxin Xie

  2. Peking University-Tsinghua University-National Institute of Biological Sciences Joint Graduate Program, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Daoxin Xie

  3. Shenzhen Branch of Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, 518124, China

    Xiaolin Zhang & Ran Du

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Han, Y., Zhang, X., Du, R. et al. The phase separation of SGS3 regulates antiviral immunity and fertility in Arabidopsis. Sci. China Life Sci. 66, 1938–1941 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2287-x

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