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Carolina Gomes1 , Filipe Oliveira2,3, Sandra Isabel Vieira2† and Ana Sofia Duque3 \* †

1 Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPG PAS), Poznań, Poland

2 Cell Differentiation and Regeneration Laboratory, Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (iBiMED), Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

3 Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory, Green-it Unit, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Oeiras, Portugal

\*Address all correspondence to: sduque@itqb.unl.pt

† Equally contributing authors

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