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Clark, J.R., Robertson, M. & Ainsworth, C.C. Nucleotide sequence of a wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cDNA clone encoding the waxy protein. Plant Mol Biol 16, 1099–1101 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016086
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00016086