OsPIE1, the Rice Ortholog of Arabidopsis PHOTOPERIOD-INDEPENDENT EARLY FLOWERING1, Is Essential for Embryo Development

• Yonghan Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghan Xu, Minjuan Deng

  Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

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• Minjuan Deng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghan Xu, Minjuan Deng

  Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

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• Jianfei Peng,

  Affiliation College of Biosafety Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

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• Zhanghua Hu,

  Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

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• Lieming Bao,

  Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

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• Junming Wang,

  Affiliation Crop Science and Nuclear Utilization Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

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• Zhi-Liang Zheng

  * E-mail: zhiliang.zheng@lehman.cuny.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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