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  1. An economic strategy to control plant disease is to improve plant defense to pathogens by deploying resistance genes. Plant polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) have a vital role in plant defense agai...

    Authors: Xijun Chen, Yuwen Chen, Lina Zhang, Zhen He, Benli Huang, Chen Chen, Qingxia Zhang and Shimin Zuo

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:56

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  2. While a multitude of genotyping platforms have been developed for rice, the majority of them have not been optimized for breeding where cost, turnaround time, throughput and ease of use, relative to density an...

    Authors: Juan David Arbelaez, Maria Stefanie Dwiyanti, Erwin Tandayu, Krizzel Llantada, Annalhea Jarana, John Carlos Ignacio, John Damien Platten, Joshua Cobb, Jessica Elaine Rutkoski, Michael J. Thomson and Tobias Kretzschmar

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:55

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  3. Rice is a global staple crop, being the main calorific component of many people living subsistence livelihoods. Rice can accumulate toxic elements such as arsenic, with the crop water management strongly affec...

    Authors: Gareth J. Norton, Anthony J. Travis, Partha Talukdar, Mahmud Hossain, Md Rafiqul Islam, Alex Douglas and Adam H. Price

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:54

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  4. The heterotrimeric G protein β subunit RGB1 plays an important role in plant growth and development. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of rice growth by RGB1 remain elusive.

    Authors: Yun Gao, Houwen Gu, Mamotshewa Leburu, Xuhui Li, Yan Wang, Jiayan Sheng, Huimin Fang, Minghong Gu and Guohua Liang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:53

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  5. Breeding for genes controlling key agronomic traits is an important goal of rice genetic improvement. To gain insight into genes controlling grain morphology, we screened M3 plants derived from 1,000 whole-genome...

    Authors: Liangrong Jiang, Guotian Li, Mawsheng Chern, Rashmi Jain, Nhan T. Pham, Joel A. Martin, Wendy S. Schackwitz, Juan Zhao, Deling Ruan, Rongyu Huang, Jingsheng Zheng and Pamela C. Ronald

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:52

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  6. Rice (Oryza sativa) feeds half of the world’s population. Rice grain yield and quality which are constrained by diseases and mineral nutritions have important human healthy impacts. Plant “fruit-weight 2.2-like” ...

    Authors: Bei Li, Shengyuan Sun, Xianmin Gao, Mengxiao Wu, Yong Deng, Qinglu Zhang, Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao, Yinggen Ke and Shiping Wang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:51

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  7. Anaerobic germination (AG) is an important trait for direct-seeded rice (DSR) to be successful. Rice usually has low germination under anaerobic conditions, which leads to a poor crop stand in DSR when rain oc...

    Authors: Sharmistha Ghosal, Carlos Casal Jr, Fergie Ann Quilloy, Endang M. Septiningsih, Merlyn S. Mendioro and Shalabh Dixit

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:50

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  8. The rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV) disease causes severe rice yield losses in Eastern China and other East Asian countries. Breeding resistant cultivars is the most economical and effective strategy t...

    Authors: Zhiming Feng, Houxiang Kang, Mingyou Li, Lihua Zou, Xiaoqiu Wang, Jianhua Zhao, Lang Wei, Nana Zhou, Qianqian Li, Ying Lan, Yafang Zhang, Zongxiang Chen, Wende Liu, Xuebiao Pan, Guo-Liang Wang and Shimin Zuo

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:49

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  9. Heading date is crucial for rice reproduction and geographic expansion. Many heading date genes are sensitive to photoperiod and jointly regulate flowering time in rice. However, it is not clear how these gene...

    Authors: Bo Zhang, Haiyang Liu, Feixiang Qi, Zhanyi Zhang, Qiuping Li, Zhongmin Han and Yongzhong Xing

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:48

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  10. Effective management of rice blast, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, requires an understanding of the genetic architecture of the resistance to the disease in rice. Rice resistance varies with M. oryzae s...

    Authors: Chenggang Li, Dan Wang, Shasha Peng, Yue Chen, Pin Su, Jianbin Chen, Limin Zheng, Xinqiu Tan, Jinling Liu, Yinghui Xiao, Houxiang Kang, Deyong Zhang, Guo-Liang Wang and Yong Liu

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:47

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  11. Stigma exsertion rate (SER) is a key determinant of outcrossing in hybrid rice seed production. A quantitative trait locus (QTL) for stigma exsertion rate in rice, qSER-7, has previously been detected on chromoso...

    Authors: Yi Liu, Anning Zhang, Feiming Wang, Deyan Kong, Mingshou Li, Junguo Bi, Fenyun Zhang, Jiahong Wang, Xingxing Luo, Zhongquan Pan, Xinqiao Yu, Guolan Liu and Lijun Luo

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:46

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  12. Jasmonate (JA) signaling and functions have been established in rice development and response to a range of biotic or abiotic stress conditions. However, information on the molecular actors and mechanisms unde...

    Authors: Mohamed Hazman, Martin Sühnel, Sandra Schäfer, Julie Zumsteg, Agnès Lesot, Fréderic Beltran, Valentin Marquis, Laurence Herrgott, Laurence Miesch, Michael Riemann and Thierry Heitz

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:45

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  13. Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is a destructive disease in most of the rice growing regions worldwide. Xoo injects the transcriptional activator-like (TAL) effector protein into the host cell to induce the s...

    Authors: Rezwan Tariq, Zhiyuan Ji, Chunlian Wang, Yongchao Tang, Lifang Zou, Hongda Sun, Gongyou Chen and Kaijun Zhao

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:44

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  14. Rice tiller number (TN) is one of the most important components associated with rice grain yield. Around one hundred rice TN genes have been identified, but dissecting the genetic architecture of rice TN varia...

    Authors: Su Jiang, Dan Wang, Shuangyong Yan, Shiming Liu, Bin Liu, Houxiang Kang and Guo-Liang Wang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:43

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  16. The brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens Stål; BPH), one of the most destructive pests of rice, has proven to be a substantial threat, conferring enormous production losses in Asia and becoming a difficult chall...

    Authors: Zhihua Li, Yanxia Xue, Hailian Zhou, Yang Li, Babar Usman, Xiaozhen Jiao, Xinyi Wang, Fang Liu, Baoxiang Qin, Rongbai Li and Yongfu Qiu

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:41

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  17. Rice (Oryza sativa) panicle architecture is the major determinant of the ideal plant architecture that directly influence yield potential. Many genes influencing development of primary branches, secondary branche...

    Authors: Xiaofang Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhengyan Dai, Xiaoling Zhao, Xuexia Miao and Zhenying Shi

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:40

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  18. The breeding and large-scale adoption of hybrid rice is an important achievement in modern agriculture. Mechanized seed production is urgently needed for widespread adoption of hybrid rice because it can compe...

    Authors: Yumei Xia, Ning Tang, Yuanyi Hu, Ding Li, Shuangcheng Li, Xiaolan Bu, Mulan Yu, Shaowu Qi, Yishan Yang, Hongjin Zhu, Chenying Cao, Ping Li, Longping Yuan and Mengliang Cao

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:39

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  20. The core ABA signaling components functioning in stomatal closure/opening, namely ABA receptors, phosphatases, SnRK2s and SLAC1, are well characterized in Arabidopsis, but their functions in guard cells of ric...

    Authors: Myung Ki Min, Eun-Hye Choi, Jin-Ae Kim, In Sun Yoon, Seungsu Han, Yeongmok Lee, Sangho Lee and Beom-Gi Kim

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:37

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  21. Bakanae disease is an important fungal disease caused by Gibberella fujikuroi. Incidence of rice bakanae disease creates serious problems in the foremost rice growing countries, and no rice variety has been found...

    Authors: Sais-Beul Lee, Namgyu Kim, Yeon-Jae Hur, Su-Min Cho, Tae-Heon Kim, Ji-youn Lee, Jun-Hyeon Cho, Jong-Hee Lee, You-Chun Song, Young-Su Seo, Jong-Min Ko and Dong-Soo Park

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:36

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  22. Rice, which serves as a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, is very susceptible to the pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae. However, common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon), which is the ancest...

    Authors: Lei Tian, Chunling Chang, Lina Ma, Fahad Nasir, Jianfeng Zhang, Weiqiang Li, Lam-Son Phan Tran and Chunjie Tian

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:35

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  23. Autotetraploid rice hybrids have great potential to increase the production, but hybrid sterility is a major hindrance in the utilization of hybrid vigor in polyploid rice, which is mainly caused by pollen abo...

    Authors: Lin Chen, Yun Yuan, Jinwen Wu, Zhixiong Chen, Lan Wang, Muhammad Qasim Shahid and Xiangdong Liu

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:34

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  24. Detecting and mapping chromosomal regions that are related to quantitative phenotypic variation in chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) provides an effective means to characterize the genetic basis of...

    Authors: Bin Zhang, Lianguang Shang, Banpu Ruan, Anpeng Zhang, Shenglong Yang, Hongzhen Jiang, Chaolei Liu, Kai Hong, Hai Lin, Zhenyu Gao, Jiang Hu, Dali Zeng, Longbiao Guo and Qian Qian

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:33

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  25. Eating and cooking quality have become ever more important breeding goals due to high levels of economic growth in Asia in recent decades. Cooked rice texture properties such as hardness, stickiness, and sprin...

    Authors: Ximing Xu, Zhengjin Xu, Yuji Matsue and Quan Xu

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:32

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  26. Seed setting rate is one of the major components that determine rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield. Successful fertilization is necessary for normal seed setting. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms...

    Authors: Xiaojiao Xiang, Peipei Zhang, Ping Yu, Yingxin Zhang, Zhengfu Yang, Lianping Sun, Weixun Wu, Riaz Muhammad Khan, Adil Abbas, Shihua Cheng and Liyong Cao

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:31

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  27. Allelopathy in rice (Oryza sativa) is a chemically induced response that is elevated by the exogenous application of chemical compounds and barnyard grass root exudates. An in-depth understanding of the response ...

    Authors: Qi Zhang, Xin-Yu Zheng, Shun-Xian Lin, Cheng-Zhen Gu, Li Li, Jia-Yu Li, Chang-Xun Fang and Hai-Bin He

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:30

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  28. Rice blast disease is a major restriction in rice production. That is usually managed using chemical pesticides, which are expensive in terms of cost and environment hazards. Use of blast-resistance genes to d...

    Authors: Haichao Jiang, Zhi Li, Jia Liu, Zhikang Shen, Guanjun Gao, Qinglu Zhang and Yuqing He

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:29

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  29. Aeration and water management increasing rhizosphere oxygen amount significantly promote rice (Oryza sativa) growth and yield, but the effect of root aeration on cadmium (Cd) toxicity and accumulation in rice see...

    Authors: Hubo Li, Xiuwen Zheng, Longxing Tao, Yongjie Yang, Lei Gao and Jie Xiong

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:28

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  30. The wild ancestors of domesticated rice had red seed, white rice being the result of a mutation in the rice domestication gene Rc. Many pigmented rice landraces are still grown by ethnic communities for their nut...

    Authors: Edwige Gaby Nkouaya Mbanjo, Huw Jones, Xavier Greg Isaguirre Caguiat, Socorro Carandang, John Carlos Ignacio, Marilyn Cruz Ferrer, Lesley Ann Boyd and Tobias Kretzschmar

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:27

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  31. In rice (Oryza sativa) and other grains, weak growth (dwarfism, short panicle length, and low seed-setting rate) and early senescence lead to reduced yield. The molecular mechanisms behind these processes have be...

    Authors: Chunyan Zhao, Chaolei Liu, Yu Zhang, Yongtao Cui, Haitao Hu, Noushin Jahan, Yang Lv, Qian Qian and Longbiao Guo

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:26

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  32. The function of Arabidopsis enhanced disease susceptibility 1 (AtEDS1) and its sequence homologs in other dicots have been extensively studied. However, it is unknown whether rice EDS1 homolog (OsEDS1) plays a ro...

    Authors: Yinggen Ke, Yuanrong Kang, Mengxiao Wu, Hongbo Liu, Shugang Hui, Qinglu Zhang, Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao and Shiping Wang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:25

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  33. Salinity-alkalinity stress is one of the major factors limiting rice production. The damage caused by alkaline salt stress to rice growth is more severe than that caused by neutral salt stress. At present, the...

    Authors: Ning Li, Hongliang Zheng, Jingnan Cui, Jingguo Wang, Hualong Liu, Jian Sun, Tongtong Liu, Hongwei Zhao, Yongcai Lai and Detang Zou

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:24

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  34. Flooding has negative impact on agriculture. The plant hormone ethylene is involved in plant growth and stress responses, which are important role in tolerance and adaptation regulatory mechanisms during subme...

    Authors: Yi-Chun Huang, Tsun-Hao Yeh and Chin-Ying Yang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:23

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  35. Although embryo accounts for only 2–3% of the total weight of a rice grain, it is a good source of various nutrients for human health. Because enlarged embryo size causes increase of the amount of nutrients an...

    Authors: Gileung Lee, Rihua Piao, Yunjoo Lee, Backki Kim, Jeonghwan Seo, Dongryung Lee, Su Jang, Zhuo Jin, Choonseok Lee, Joong Hyoun Chin and Hee-Jong Koh

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:22

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  36. The development and utilization of genetic markers play a pivotal role in marker-assisted breeding of rice cultivars during pyramiding of valuable genes. Among molecular markers, SNPs have become the most prom...

    Authors: Guili Yang, Siping Chen, Likai Chen, Kai Sun, Cuihong Huang, Danhua Zhou, Yuting Huang, Jiafeng Wang, Yongzhu Liu, Hui Wang, Zhiqiang Chen and Tao Guo

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:21

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  37. Epigenetic variants broaden phenotypic diversity in eukaryotes. Epialleles may also provide a new genetic source for crop breeding, but very few epialleles related to agricultural traits have been identified i...

    Authors: Xin Luan, Shuchun Liu, Shanwen Ke, Hang Dai, Xin-Ming Xie, Tzung-Fu Hsieh and Xiang-Qian Zhang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:20

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  38. Cytokinins are one of the five major hormones families in plants and are important for their normal growth and environmental adaptability. In plants, cytokinins are mostly present as glycosides in plants, and ...

    Authors: Pan Li, Kang Lei, Yanjie Li, Xingrui He, Shuo Wang, Renmin Liu, Lusha Ji and Bingkai Hou

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:19

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  39. Rice blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is the most devastating disease in rice production. Compared with seedling blast, panicle blast is considered to be more destructive, which can occur without being preceded...

    Authors: Nengyan Fang, Xiaorui Wei, Lingtong Shen, Yao Yu, Mengya Li, Congfei Yin, Wanwan He, Changhong Guan, Hao Chen, Hongsheng Zhang and Yongmei Bao

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:18

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  41. The development of rice varieties with broad-spectrum resistance to insect pests is the most promising approach for controlling a fast evolving insect pest such as the brown planthopper (BPH). To cope with rap...

    Authors: Wintai Kamolsukyeunyong, Siriphat Ruengphayak, Pantharika Chumwong, Lucia Kusumawati, Ekawat Chaichoompu, Watchareewan Jamboonsri, Chatree Saensuk, Kunyakarn Phoonsiri, Theerayut Toojinda and Apichart Vanavichit

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:16

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  43. Semi-irrigated aerobic cultivation of rice has been suggested as a potential water saving agronomy. However, suitable cultivars are needed in order to sustain yield levels. An introgression of water mining and...

    Authors: Prathibha M. Dharmappa, Pushpa Doddaraju, Mohankumar V. Malagondanahalli, Raju B. Rangappa, N. M. Mallikarjuna, Sowmya H. Rajendrareddy, Ramachandra Ramanjinappa, Rajanna P. Mavinahalli, Trichy Ganesh Prasad, Makarla Udayakumar and Sreeman M. Sheshshayee

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:14

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  44. Salinity expansion in arable land is a threat to crop plants. Rice is the staple food crop across several countries worldwide; however, its salt sensitive nature severely affects its growth under excessive sal...

    Authors: Raheleh Mirdar Mansuri, Zahra-Sadat Shobbar, Nadali Babaeian Jelodar, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Ghorban-Ali Nematzadeh and Saeedeh Asari

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:13

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  45. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops that serves as staple food for ~ 50% of the human population worldwide. Some important agronomic traits that allow rice to cope with numerous abiotic and ...

    Authors: Zhenhui Zhong, Lianyu Lin, Meilian Chen, Lili Lin, Xiaofeng Chen, Yahong Lin, Xi Chen, Zonghua Wang, Justice Norvienyeku and Huakun Zheng

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:12

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  46. Broad-spectrum resistance gene pyramiding helps the development of varieties with broad-spectrum and durable resistance to M. oryzae. However, detailed information about how these different sources of broad-spect...

    Authors: Yunyu Wu, Ning Xiao, Yu Chen, Ling Yu, Cunhong Pan, Yuhong Li, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Niansheng Huang, Hongjuan Ji, Zhengyuan Dai, Xijun Chen and Aihong Li

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:11

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  47. Oryza glumaepatula represents an important resource of genetic diversity that can be used to improve rice production. However, hybrid sterility severely restricts gene flow between Oryza species, and hinders the ...

    Authors: Chaowei Fang, Le Li, Runming He, Daiqi Wang, Man Wang, Qian Hu, Qianru Ma, Kaiyi Qin, Xueye Feng, Guiquan Zhang, Xuelin Fu and Ziqiang Liu

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:10

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  48. In plants, basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins form the largest transcription factor (TF) family. Among them, HLH proteins are a small group of atypical members that lack the basic domain, and form dimers w...

    Authors: Meiling Wang, Dongyong Yang, Feilong Ma, Mulan Zhu, Zhenying Shi and Xuexia Miao

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:9

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  49. Climate extremes such as drought and flood have become major constraints to the sustainable rice crop productivity in rainfed environments. Availability of suitable climate-resilient varieties could help farme...

    Authors: Nitika Sandhu, Shalabh Dixit, B. P. M. Swamy, Anitha Raman, Santosh Kumar, S. P. Singh, R. B. Yadaw, O. N. Singh, J. N. Reddy, A. Anandan, Shailesh Yadav, Challa Venkataeshwarllu, Amelia Henry, Satish Verulkar, N. P. Mandal, T. Ram…

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:8

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  50. Leaf senescence is a genetically regulated, highly complex and ordered process. Although it has been extensively studied, the mechanism of leaf senescence is not well understood. In this study, we isolated a r...

    Authors: Shanwen Ke, Shuchun Liu, Xin Luan, Xin-Ming Xie, Tzung-Fu Hsieh and Xiang-Qian Zhang

    Citation: Rice 2019 12:7

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