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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31960138), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (20171ACB20001), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YRD0102003).
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Liu, ZH., Tang, S., Hu, W. et al. Precise editing of methylated cytosine in Arabidopsis thaliana using a human APOBEC3Bctd-Cas9 fusion. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 219–222 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1970-x
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