Overexpression of the WOX gene STENOFOLIA improves biomass yield and sugar release in transgenic grasses and display altered cytokinin homeostasis

• Hui Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Lifang Niu, Chunxiang Fu

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Lifang Niu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Lifang Niu, Chunxiang Fu

  Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, 3210 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Chunxiang Fu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Wang, Lifang Niu, Chunxiang Fu

  Current address: Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.

  Affiliation Forage Improvement Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Yingying Meng,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Dajun Sang,

  Current address: Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University, Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America.

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, 3210 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Pengcheng Yin,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jinxia Wu,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yuhong Tang,

  Affiliation Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Tiegang Lu,

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zeng-Yu Wang,

  Affiliation Forage Improvement Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Million Tadege ,

  * E-mail: million.tadege@okstate.edu (MT); linhao@caas.cn (HL)

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, 3210 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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• Hao Lin

  * E-mail: million.tadege@okstate.edu (MT); linhao@caas.cn (HL)

  Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, 3210 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, United States of America

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