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Katarína Ražná1 \*, Jana Žiarovská1 and Zdenka Gálová<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic

2 Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic

\*Address all correspondence to: katarina.razna@uniag.sk

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