期刊论文

Gong, Ji-Ming;Qian, Qian

英文

Nature Communications

2041-1723

2018

9

1

645

10.1038/s41467-018-03088-0

We thank Drs. J. K. Zhu (Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing CRISPR-Cas9 construct, W. H. Tang and D. Y. Chao (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for providing the mRFP fragment and the pCold-TF vector, X. S. Gao (Core Facility, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for helping with confocal microscopy, P. Zhang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) for helping with ITC analysis. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31325003 and 31421093), the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFD0100700) and the XDPB0402 of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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