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Research Article

Ectopic expression of a tobacco vacuolar invertase inhibitor in guard cells confers drought tolerance in Arabidopsis

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Pages 1381-1385 | Received 16 Aug 2015, Accepted 12 Jan 2016, Published online: 22 Feb 2016

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