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This work was support in part by a US Department of Agriculture grant (2010-34135-21095) and a National Science Foundation grant (IOS-1121392) to N.O.K., by a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Innovation grant to N.O.K. and D.B., and by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Florida Agricultural and Consumers Services grants to D.B. Y.F. was supported in part by a New Century Excellent Talents in University grant (NCET-10-0698) and by a Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China grant (FANEDD, 2010067).
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Fan, Y., Borovsky, D., Hawkings, C. et al. Exploiting host molecules to augment mycoinsecticide virulence. Nat Biotechnol 30, 35–37 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2080
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