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stages, as well as in the microspore at the late
developmental stages (Takayama et al., 2000b).
This showed an apparent sporophytic/gametophytic
expression pattern. In future studies, the
expression pattern of BcMF5 should be confirmed
using in situ hybridization.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Natural Science
Foundation of China (No. 30370975) and the
Key Sci-technology Project of Zhejiang Province
(No. 2005C12019-02).
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