Auxin production in diploid microsporocytes is necessary and sufficient for early stages of pollen development

• Xiaozhen Yao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Lei Tian,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Jun Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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• Yan-Na Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Ying-Xiu Zhu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Xinhua Dai,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Yunde Zhao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yundezhao@ucsd.edu (YZ); znyang@shnu.edu.cn (ZNY)

  Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7224-8449

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• Zhong-Nan Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yundezhao@ucsd.edu (YZ); znyang@shnu.edu.cn (ZNY)

  Affiliations College of Life and Environment Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5918-2385

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