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Wojciech Rybiński1 , Magdalena Karamać 2 , Katarzyna Sulewska2 and Ryszard Amarowicz<sup>2</sup> \*

1 Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland

2 Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Poland

\*Address all correspondence to: r.amarowicz@pan.olsztyn.pl

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