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Abbreviations

GST :

Glutathione S-transferase

PA :

Proanthocyanidin

TGN :

trans-Golgi network

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Niloufer Irani and Joseph Onyilagha for comments on the manuscript. Research on the trafficking of phytochemicals in the Grotewold lab is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (MCB-0139962).

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Grotewold, E. The challenges of moving chemicals within and out of cells: insights into the transport of plant natural products. Planta 219, 906–909 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-004-1336-0

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