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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food (CSIRO), Australia.

John Bingham Laboratory, United Kingdom.

School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United Kingdom.

Bushes gene sequence definition