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1 State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics & National Plant Gene Research Centre (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, 2 Institute of Crop Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China, 3 Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, 4 Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101300, China. 5 These authors contributed equally to this work. 6 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail lhzhu@genetics.ac.cn; fax +86 10