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Comment
. 2020 Dec;184(4):1622-1624.
doi: 10.1104/pp.20.01445.

The Fat of the Land: Cuticle Formation in Terrestrial Plants

Madeleine Seale  1
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The Fat of the Land: Cuticle Formation in Terrestrial Plants

Madeleine Seale. Plant Physiol. 2020 Dec.
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Figure 1.
Schematic illustrating the proposed origins, evolutions, and characteristics of cuticle biosynthesis genes and cuticle properties. Reproduced from Kong et al. (2020), figure 6.
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